Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 8, sentence 191
Page 276--the amended to The--"The fiend disappears howling, ..."
Who acts: fiend · What happens: amend, disappear, howl · To what, where: Page
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 (fiend), 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 | 276 | 276 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Page | flat |
| 3 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 1 Page | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 amended | det |
| 5 | amended | amend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 disappears | case |
| 7 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 disappears | det |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 disappears | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 disappears | punct |
| 10 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fiend | det |
| 11 | fiend | fiend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 disappears | nsubj |
| 12 | disappears | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 amended | advcl |
| 13 | howling | howl | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 disappears | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 howling | punct |
| 15 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 5 amended | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 amended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | amend | participle · passive | Page | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | disappear in a quote | present | the fiend | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | howl in a quote | gerund | the fiend not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=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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