Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 8, sentence 97
There were a very large number of typographic errors in the source edition of this text.
Who acts: large number · What happens: be
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 (large number), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 number | det |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 large | advmod |
| 5 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 number | amod |
| 6 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 were | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 errors | case |
| 8 | typographic | typographic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 errors | amod |
| 9 | errors | error | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 number | nmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 edition | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 edition | det |
| 12 | source | source | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 edition | compound |
| 13 | edition | edition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 errors | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 text | case |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 text | det |
| 16 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 edition | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a large number of typographic errors in the source edition of this text | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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