Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 8, sentence 190
Page 262--shaskas amended to skazkas--"But skazkas tell that ..."
Who acts: skazkas · What happens: amend, tell · To what, where: shaskas, that · 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 (skazkas), 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 | 12 tell | compound |
| 2 | 262 | 262 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Page | flat |
| 3 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 shaskas | punct |
| 4 | shaskas | shaska | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Page | conj |
| 5 | amended | amend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 shaskas | acl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 skazkas | case |
| 7 | skazkas | skazka | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 amended | obl |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 1 Page | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 tell | punct |
| 10 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 skazkas | cc |
| 11 | skazkas | skazka | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 tell | nsubj |
| 12 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 tell | obj |
| 14 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 12 tell | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | amend | participle | shaskas not said here | to skazkas | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present | skazkas | that | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Recipient |
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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