Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Russian Fairy Tales, sentence 30
This collection, though far less rich in variants than Rudchenko's, contained many original tales which had escaped him, and was ably edited by Michael Dragomanov, by whose name, indeed, it is generally known.
Who acts: collection, Michael · What happens: contain, escape, edit, know · To what, where: many original tales, collection
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 (collection, Michael), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 collection | det |
| 2 | collection | collection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 contained | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 rich | punct |
| 4 | though | though | ADV | _ | 7 rich | advmod |
| 5 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 less | advmod |
| 6 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 rich | advmod |
| 7 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 collection | amod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 variants | case |
| 9 | variants | variant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 rich | obl |
| 10 | than | than | ADP | _ | 11 Rudchenko | case |
| 11 | Rudchenko | Rudchenko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 variants | nmod |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 Rudchenko | case |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 collection | punct |
| 14 | contained | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 tales | amod |
| 16 | original | original | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 tales | amod |
| 17 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 contained | obj |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 escaped | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 escaped | aux |
| 20 | escaped | escape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 tales | acl:relcl |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 escaped | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 edited | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 edited | cc |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 edited | aux:pass |
| 25 | ably | ably | ADV | _ | 26 edited | advmod |
| 26 | edited | edit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 contained | parataxis |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 Michael | case |
| 28 | Michael | Michael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 edited | obl |
| 29 | Dragomanov | Dragomanov | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Michael | flat |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 name | punct |
| 31 | by | by | ADP | _ | 33 name | case |
| 32 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 33 name | nmod:poss |
| 33 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 edited | parataxis |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 indeed | punct |
| 35 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 33 name | advmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 known | punct |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 known | nsubj:pass |
| 38 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 known | aux:pass |
| 39 | generally | generally | ADV | _ | 40 known | advmod |
| 40 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 contained | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 contained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contain | past | this collection | many original tales | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot tale=Theme | ||||
| 2 | escape | past · perfect · passive | many original tales | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | edit | past · passive | Michael | ably property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | know | present · passive | collection | generally property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |
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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