Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 8, sentence 9
Popular Tales, their meaning &c., 16-18; human and supernatural agents in, 75-78
Who acts: Tales · What happens: mean
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 (Tales), 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 | Popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Tales | amod |
| 2 | Tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 meaning | punct |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 meaning | nmod:poss |
| 5 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Tales | conj |
| 6 | & | & | CCONJ | _ | 7 c. | cc |
| 7 | c. | c. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 meaning | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 16-18 | punct |
| 9 | 16-18 | 16-18 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 Tales | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 agents | punct |
| 11 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 agents | amod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 supernatural | cc |
| 13 | supernatural | supernatural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 human | conj |
| 14 | agents | agent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Tales | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADV | _ | 14 agents | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 75-78 | punct |
| 17 | 75-78 | 75-78 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 Tales | conj |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | Tales = tale | nom meaning «communication transitive»: poss=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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