Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 33

But in most cases he is a serpent which in outward appearance seems to differ from other ophidians only in being winged and polycephalous--the number of his heads generally varying from three to twelve.

Who acts: outline, heads · What happens: be, seem, differ, wing, vary · To what, where: serpent, outward appearance, number

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, heads), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 cases	cc
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 cases	case
3	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 cases	amod
4	cases	case	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 serpent	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 serpent	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 serpent	det
8	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cases	acl:relcl
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 seems	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 appearance	case
11	outward	outward	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 appearance	amod
12	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 seems	obl
13	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 serpent	acl:relcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 differ	mark
15	differ	differ	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 seems	xcomp
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 ophidians	case
17	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 ophidians	amod
18	ophidians	ophidian	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 differ	obl
19	only	only	ADV	_	22 winged	advmod
20	in	in	SCONJ	_	22 winged	mark
21	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 winged	aux:pass
22	winged	wing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 differ	advcl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 polycephalous	cc
24	polycephalous	polycephalous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 winged	conj
25	--	--	PUNCT	_	27 number	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 number	det
27	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 differ	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 heads	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 heads	nmod:poss
30	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 number	nmod
31	generally	generally	ADV	_	32 varying	advmod
32	varying	vary	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 heads	acl
33	from	from	ADP	_	34 three	case
34	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 varying	obl
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 twelve	case
36	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 three	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 cases	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	outline	a serpent			tree rules
2	seem	present		a serpent	outward appearance		tree rules
3	differ	to-infinitive		the number of outline's heads		from other ophidians	vn differ-23.4 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme from ophidian=Co-Theme
4	wing	gerund · passive					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»
5	vary	gerund	outline's heads not said here			from three to twelve; generally property	vn differ-23.4 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme from three=Co-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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