Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 8, sentence 115
Page 16--medieval amended to mediaeval--"... a blurred transcript of a page of mediaeval history ..."
What happens: amend, blur, page · To what, where: mediaeval history
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: 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 | Page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mediaeval | compound |
| 2 | 16 | 16 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Page | flat |
| 3 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 7 mediaeval | punct |
| 4 | medieval | medieval | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 mediaeval | amod |
| 5 | amended | amend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 mediaeval | amod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 mediaeval | case |
| 7 | mediaeval | mediaeval | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 7 mediaeval | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 mediaeval | punct |
| 10 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 13 transcript | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 transcript | det |
| 12 | blurred | blur | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 transcript | amod |
| 13 | transcript | transcript | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mediaeval | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 page | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 page | det |
| 16 | page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 transcript | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 history | case |
| 18 | mediaeval | mediaeval | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 history | compound |
| 19 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 page | nmod |
| 20 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 7 mediaeval | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 mediaeval | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | amend | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | blur in a quote | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | page in a quote | mediaeval history | nom page «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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