Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 8, sentence 140
Page 104--me amended to met--"Presently there met him a lioness ..."
Who acts: me, Women · What happens: amend, meet · To what, where: Bauerntochter
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 (me, Women), 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 | compound |
| 2 | 104 | 104 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Page | flat |
| 3 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 1 Page | punct |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 amended | nsubj |
| 5 | amended | amend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 7 met | mark |
| 7 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 amended | xcomp |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 met | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 there | punct |
| 10 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 11 there | advmod |
| 11 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 met | advmod |
| 12 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 amended | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 met | obj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 lioness | det |
| 15 | lioness | lioness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 met | obj |
| 16 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 5 amended | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 amended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | amend | past | me | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | meet | participle | me not said here | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | meet in a quote | past | Women = woman not said here | Bauerntochter | there | 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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