Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 31

Sometimes he retains throughout the story an exclusively reptilian character; sometimes he is of a mixed nature, partly serpent and partly man.

Who acts: outline · What happens: retain, mix, be · To what, where: reptilian character

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	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 retains	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 retains	nsubj
3	retains	retain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	throughout	throughout	ADP	_	6 story	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 story	det
6	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 retains	obl
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 character	det
8	exclusively	exclusively	ADV	_	9 reptilian	advmod
9	reptilian	reptilian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 character	amod
10	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 retains	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 nature	punct
12	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	18 nature	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 nature	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 nature	cop
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 nature	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 nature	det
17	mixed	mix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 nature	amod
18	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 retains	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 serpent	punct
20	partly	partly	ADV	_	21 serpent	advmod
21	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 nature	conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 man	cc
23	partly	partly	ADV	_	24 man	advmod
24	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 serpent	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 retains	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	retain	present	outline	a reptilian character	throughout the story	sometimes property	tree rules
2	mix	participle					vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	is	present	outline			of a mixed nature and serpent and man; sometimes 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 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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