Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 8, sentence 30
Soldier's Midnight Watch, story of the, 279
Who acts: Midnight · What happens: watch
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 (Midnight), 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 | Soldier | Soldier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Midnight | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Soldier | case |
| 3 | Midnight | Midnight | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | Watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 Midnight | acl:relcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 story | punct |
| 6 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Midnight | appos |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 279 | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 279 | det |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 279 | punct |
| 10 | 279 | 279 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 story | nmod |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | infinitive | Soldier's Midnight not said here | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: 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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