Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 8, sentence 128
Page 59--the author uses the statement, "The folk-tales of all lands delight to gird at misers and skinflints ...".
Who acts: Page, folk tales, lands · What happens: use, delight, gird, tell · To what, where: statement, misers · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Page, folk tales, lands), 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 | 6 uses | nsubj |
| 2 | 59 | 59 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Page | flat |
| 3 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 1 Page | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 author | det |
| 5 | author | author | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 uses | nsubj |
| 6 | uses | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 statement | det |
| 8 | statement | statement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 uses | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 tales | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 tales | punct |
| 11 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tales | det |
| 12 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tales | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 folk | punct |
| 14 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 delight | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 lands | case |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 lands | det |
| 17 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 tales | nmod |
| 18 | delight | delight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 uses | parataxis |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 gird | mark |
| 20 | gird | gird | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 delight | xcomp |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 misers | case |
| 22 | misers | miser | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 gird | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 skinflints | cc |
| 24 | skinflints | skinflint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 misers | conj |
| 25 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 22 misers | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 misers | punct |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 uses | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present | Page | the statement | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent statement=Theme clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | delight in a quote | present | the folk tales of all lands | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | gird in a quote | to-infinitive | the folk tales of all lands not said here | misers and skinflints | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | tell in a quote | all lands | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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