Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 40, sentence 24
Goblins are very rare in Russian folk-lore; fairies seem to be non-existent.
Who acts: Goblins, fairies · What happens: be, seem · To what, where: Russian folk lore
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 40. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Goblins, fairies), 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 | Goblins | goblin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 rare | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 rare | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 rare | advmod |
| 4 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 lore | case |
| 6 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 lore | amod |
| 7 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lore | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 folk | punct |
| 9 | lore | lore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rare | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 seem | punct |
| 11 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 seem | nsubj |
| 12 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 rare | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 non-existent | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 non-existent | cop |
| 15 | non-existent | non-existent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 seem | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rare | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Goblins | Russian folk lore | rare property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | seem | present | fairies | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | fairies not said here | non-existent property | tree rules |
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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