Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 8, sentence 121
Page 42, footnote [37]--Nicola's amended to Nicholas's--"In another story St. Nicolas's picture is the surety."
Who acts: you · What happens: footnote, amend, be · To what, where: 37, Nicola, Nicholas, surety, story
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 (you), 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 | 4 footnote | compound |
| 2 | 42 | 42 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Page | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 footnote | punct |
| 4 | footnote | footnote | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 6 37 | punct |
| 6 | 37 | 37 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 footnote | obj |
| 7 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 6 37 | punct |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 9 Nicola | punct |
| 9 | Nicola | Nicola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 37 | nmod:unmarked |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Nicola | case |
| 11 | amended | amend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 Nicola | acl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Nicholas | case |
| 13 | Nicholas | Nicholas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 amended | obl |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 Nicholas | case |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 26 surety | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 surety | punct |
| 17 | In | in | ADP | _ | 19 story | case |
| 18 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 story | det |
| 19 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 surety | obl |
| 20 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 picture | nmod:poss |
| 21 | Nicolas | Nicolas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 St. | flat |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 St. | case |
| 23 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 story | appos |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 surety | cop |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 surety | det |
| 26 | surety | surety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 37 | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 footnote | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 footnote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | footnote | imperative | you not said here | 37 and the surety | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | amend | participle | Nicola not said here | Nicholas | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | you not said here | the surety | another story | tree rules |
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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