Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 8, sentence 103
There are also some unusual grammatical structures in places, which probably result from the author's intention to render the translations as literally as possible.
Who acts: unusual grammatical structures, places, author · What happens: be, result, render, intend · To what, where: intention, translations
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (unusual grammatical structures, places, author), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 are | expl |
| 2 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 2 are | advmod |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 structures | det |
| 5 | unusual | unusual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 structures | amod |
| 6 | grammatical | grammatical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 structures | amod |
| 7 | structures | structure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 are | nsubj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 places | case |
| 9 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 structures | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 result | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 result | nsubj |
| 12 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 13 result | advmod |
| 13 | result | result | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 places | nmod |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 intention | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 author | det |
| 16 | author | author | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 intention | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 author | case |
| 18 | intention | intention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 result | nmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 render | mark |
| 20 | render | render | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 result | acl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 translations | det |
| 22 | translations | translation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 render | obj |
| 23 | as | as | ADV | _ | 24 literally | advmod |
| 24 | literally | literally | ADV | _ | 20 render | advmod |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 possible | mark |
| 26 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 literally | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 are | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | some unusual grammatical structures in places | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | result | places | the author's intention | probably property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | render | to-infinitive | some unusual grammatical structures in places not said here | the translations | literally property | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent translation=Theme | |||
| 4 | intend | the author | nom intention «cognition transitive»: 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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