Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 30

Now in one form and now in another, he glides a shifting shape, of which it is difficult to obtain a satisfactory view.

Who acts: outline · What happens: glide, be, obtain · To what, where: shifting shape, satisfactory view

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (outline), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 glides	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 form	case
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 form	nummod
4	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Now	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 now	cc
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Now	conj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 another	case
8	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	6 now	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 glides	nsubj
11	glides	glide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 shape	det
13	shifting	shifting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 shape	amod
14	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 glides	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 difficult	punct
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 which	case
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 difficult	obl
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 difficult	expl
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 difficult	cop
20	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 glides	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 obtain	mark
22	obtain	obtain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 difficult	csubj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 view	det
24	satisfactory	satisfactory	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 view	amod
25	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 obtain	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 glides	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	glide	present	outline	a shifting shape	now		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Agent
2	is	present	outline not said here			difficult property	tree rules
3	obtain	to-infinitive		a satisfactory view			vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset view=Theme

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 Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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