Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 41, sentence 149
This is a simple instance of the _prískazka_ or preface to a story.
Who acts: This · What happens: be · To what, where: simple instance
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 41. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 instance | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 instance | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 instance | det |
| 4 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 instance | amod |
| 5 | instance | instance | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 prískazka | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 prískazka | det |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 prískazka | punct |
| 9 | prískazka | prískazka | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 instance | appos |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 prískazka | punct |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 preface | cc |
| 12 | preface | preface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 prískazka | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 story | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 story | det |
| 15 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 preface | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 instance | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | a simple instance | 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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