Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 40, sentence 62
In Russian folk-tales they have magical attributes, and are often described by their caps, e.g. oaken-cap, blue-cap, etc.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: have, describe · To what, where: magical attributes, Russian folk tales
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 (Prince), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 tales | case |
| 2 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tales | amod |
| 3 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tales | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 folk | punct |
| 5 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 have | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 tales | acl:relcl |
| 8 | magical | magical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 attributes | amod |
| 9 | attributes | attribute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 have | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 described | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 described | cc |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 described | aux:pass |
| 13 | often | often | ADV | _ | 14 described | advmod |
| 14 | described | describe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 tales | acl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 caps | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 caps | nmod:poss |
| 17 | caps | cap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 described | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 cap | punct |
| 19 | e.g. | e.g. | ADV | _ | 22 cap | advmod |
| 20 | oaken | oaken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 cap | amod |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 oaken | punct |
| 22 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 caps | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 cap | punct |
| 24 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 cap | amod |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 blue | punct |
| 26 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 cap | appos |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 tales | punct |
| 28 | etc. | etc. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Plur | 5 tales | conj |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Prince | magical attributes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attribute=Patient | ||||
| 2 | describe | present · passive | Russian folk tales and etc. not said here | by Prince's caps oaken cap; often property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING» |
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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