Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Russian Fairy Tales, sentence 16
The favourable reception given to my volume of _Russian Fairy Tales_ has encouraged me to follow it up with a sister volume of stories selected from another Slavonic dialect extraordinarily rich in folk-tales--I mean Ruthenian, the language of the Cossacks.
Who acts: favourable reception, I · What happens: give, encourage, follow up, select, mean · To what, where: favourable reception, volume, reception, stories, Slavonic dialect, Ruthenian
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Russian Fairy Tales. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (favourable reception, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 reception | det |
| 2 | favourable | favourable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 reception | amod |
| 3 | reception | reception | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 encouraged | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 reception | acl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 volume | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 volume | nmod:poss |
| 7 | volume | volume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 given | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Tales | case |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 of | punct |
| 10 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Tales | amod |
| 11 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Tales | compound |
| 12 | Tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 volume | nmod |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 4 given | punct |
| 14 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 encouraged | aux |
| 15 | encouraged | encourage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 encouraged | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 follow | mark |
| 18 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 encouraged | xcomp |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 follow | obj |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 follow | compound:prt |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 volume | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 volume | det |
| 23 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 volume | compound |
| 24 | volume | volume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 follow | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 stories | case |
| 26 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 volume | nmod |
| 27 | selected | select | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 stories | acl |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 dialect | case |
| 29 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 31 dialect | det |
| 30 | Slavonic | slavonic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 dialect | amod |
| 31 | dialect | dialect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 selected | obl |
| 32 | extraordinarily | extraordinarily | ADV | _ | 33 rich | advmod |
| 33 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 dialect | amod |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 tales | case |
| 35 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 tales | compound |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 folk | punct |
| 37 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 rich | obl |
| 38 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 40 mean | punct |
| 39 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 mean | nsubj |
| 40 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 encouraged | parataxis |
| 41 | Ruthenian | Ruthenian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 mean | obj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 language | punct |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 language | det |
| 44 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 Ruthenian | appos |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 Cossacks | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 Cossacks | det |
| 47 | Cossacks | Cossack | PROPN | Number=Plur | 44 language | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 encouraged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | participle | the favourable reception not said here | my volume of Russian Fairy Tales | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to volume=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | encourage | present · perfect · passive | the favourable reception | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | follow up not said to happen | to-infinitive | the favourable reception not said here | reception | with a sister volume of stories | tree rules | |||
| 4 | select | participle | stories not said here | another Slavonic dialect | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from dialect=Source | ||||
| 5 | mean | present | I | Ruthenian | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ruthenian=Topic |
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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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