Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 8, sentence 123
Page 45--crouched amended to couched--"... couched in terms of the utmost severity ..."
What happens: amend, couch, term · To what, where: Page, terms, utmost severity
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 | 5 amended | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | 45 | 45 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Page | flat |
| 3 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 1 Page | punct |
| 4 | crouched | crouch | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 amended | aux:pass |
| 5 | amended | amend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 7 couched | mark |
| 7 | couched | couch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 amended | advcl |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 7 couched | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 couched | punct |
| 10 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 11 couched | punct |
| 11 | couched | couch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 amended | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 terms | case |
| 13 | terms | term | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 couched | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 severity | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 severity | det |
| 16 | utmost | utmost | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 severity | amod |
| 17 | severity | severity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 terms | nmod |
| 18 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 5 amended | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 amended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | amend | past · passive | Page | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | couch | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | couch in a quote | participle | terms of the utmost severity | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | term in a quote | the utmost severity | nom term «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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