Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., sentence 1
Slavonic Ideas about the Dead--On Heaven and Hell--On the Jack and the Beanstalk Story--Harmless Ghosts--The Rip van Winkle Story--the attachment of Ghosts to their Shrouds and Coffin-Lids--Murderous Ghosts--Stories about Vampires--on the name Vampire, and the belief in Vampirism 295
What happens: attach · To what, where: Ghosts
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Slavonic | slavonic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Ideas | nsubj |
| 2 | Ideas | idea | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 Dead | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Dead | det |
| 5 | Dead | Dead | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Ideas | nmod |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 Heaven | punct |
| 7 | On | on | ADP | _ | 8 Heaven | case |
| 8 | Heaven | Heaven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Ideas | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Hell | cc |
| 10 | Hell | Hell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Heaven | conj |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 Jack | punct |
| 12 | On | on | ADP | _ | 14 Jack | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Jack | det |
| 14 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Ideas | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Story | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Story | det |
| 17 | Beanstalk | Beanstalk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Story | compound |
| 18 | Story | Story | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Jack | conj |
| 19 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 Ghosts | punct |
| 20 | Harmless | harmless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Ghosts | amod |
| 21 | Ghosts | ghost | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Ideas | conj |
| 22 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 27 Story | punct |
| 23 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Story | det |
| 24 | Rip | Rip | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Winkle | compound |
| 25 | van | van | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 Winkle | compound |
| 26 | Winkle | winkle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 Story | nmod:desc |
| 27 | Story | Story | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Ghosts | nmod |
| 28 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 30 attachment | punct |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 attachment | det |
| 30 | attachment | attachment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 Story | appos |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 Ghosts | case |
| 32 | Ghosts | ghost | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 attachment | nmod |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 Shrouds | case |
| 34 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 Shrouds | nmod:poss |
| 35 | Shrouds | shroud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 attachment | nmod |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 Lids | cc |
| 37 | Coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 Lids | compound |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 Coffin | punct |
| 39 | Lids | lid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 Shrouds | conj |
| 40 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 42 Ghosts | punct |
| 41 | Murderous | murderous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 Ghosts | amod |
| 42 | Ghosts | ghost | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 Shrouds | conj |
| 43 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 44 Stories | punct |
| 44 | Stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Ideas | conj |
| 45 | about | about | ADP | _ | 46 Vampires | case |
| 46 | Vampires | vampire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 Stories | nmod |
| 47 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 51 Vampire | punct |
| 48 | on | on | ADP | _ | 51 Vampire | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 name | det |
| 50 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 Vampire | compound |
| 51 | Vampire | Vampire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Ideas | nmod |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 58 295 | punct |
| 53 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 58 295 | cc |
| 54 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 55 belief | det |
| 55 | belief | belief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 58 295 | nsubj |
| 56 | in | in | ADP | _ | 57 Vampirism | case |
| 57 | Vampirism | Vampirism | PROPN | Number=Sing | 55 belief | nmod |
| 58 | 295 | 295 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 Ideas | conj |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attach | Ghosts | to Ghosts's Shrouds and Coffin Lids and Murderous Ghosts | nom attachment «feeling transitive»: of=patient to=obl |
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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