Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7, sentence 63
[438] Afanasief, in his notes to this story, gives several of its variants.
Who acts: Afanasief, cross-brothership · What happens: give, note, vary · To what, where: several
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Afanasief, cross-brothership), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 438 | punct |
| 2 | 438 | 438 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 438 | punct |
| 4 | Afanasief | Afanasief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 438 | nmod:unmarked |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 438 | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 notes | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 notes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | notes | note | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 438 | nmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 story | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 story | det |
| 11 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 notes | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gives | punct |
| 13 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 438 | conj |
| 14 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 gives | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 variants | case |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 variants | nmod:poss |
| 17 | variants | variant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 several | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 438 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | several | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent several=Theme | |||||
| 2 | note | Afanasief | to this story | nom note «communication transitive»: poss=agent to=obl | |||||
| 3 | vary | cross-brothership | nom variant «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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