Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 8, sentence 218
Page 385--lighting amended to lightning--"superstitions about lightning, 343;"
What happens: amend · 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: 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 | root | root |
| 2 | 385 | 385 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Page | flat |
| 3 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 5 amended | punct |
| 4 | lighting | light | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 amended | aux:pass |
| 5 | amended | amend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Page | acl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 lightning | case |
| 7 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 amended | obl |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 10 superstitions | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 superstitions | punct |
| 10 | superstitions | superstition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 lightning | conj |
| 11 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 lightning | case |
| 12 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 superstitions | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 343 | punct |
| 14 | 343 | 343 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 lightning | appos |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 1 Page | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Page | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | amend | gerund · passive | Page not said here | to lightning and superstitions about lightning | 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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