Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 40
The stories are not, like the German _Märchen_, neatly rounded off into consequential and purposive stories.
What happens: round off · To what, where: stories, consequential stories
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 stories | det |
| 2 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 rounded | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 not | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 stories | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 German | punct |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 German | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 German | det |
| 8 | German | German | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 stories | appos |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 Märchen | punct |
| 10 | Märchen | Märchen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 German | conj |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 German | punct |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 rounded | punct |
| 13 | neatly | neatly | ADV | _ | 14 rounded | advmod |
| 14 | rounded | round | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | off | off | ADP | _ | 14 rounded | compound:prt |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 stories | case |
| 17 | consequential | consequential | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 stories | amod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 purposive | cc |
| 19 | purposive | purposive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 consequential | conj |
| 20 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 rounded | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 rounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | round off | participle · passive | the stories | into consequential stories result; neatly property | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient into story=Result |
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 Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (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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