Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 39
Sometimes, however, the snake is represented as having a wife of his own species, and daughters who share their parent's tastes and powers.
Who acts: daughters, parent · What happens: represent, have, share, taste · To what, where: snake, wife, tastes
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 (daughters, parent), 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 | 8 represented | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sometimes | punct |
| 3 | however | however | ADV | _ | 8 represented | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 however | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 snake | det |
| 6 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 represented | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 represented | aux:pass |
| 8 | represented | represent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 having | mark |
| 10 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 represented | advcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 wife | det |
| 12 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 having | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 species | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 species | nmod:poss |
| 15 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 species | amod |
| 16 | species | species | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wife | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 daughters | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 daughters | cc |
| 19 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 represented | obl |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 share | nsubj |
| 21 | share | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 daughters | acl:relcl |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 parent | nmod:poss |
| 23 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 tastes | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 parent | case |
| 25 | tastes | taste | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 share | obj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 powers | cc |
| 27 | powers | power | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 tastes | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 represented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | represent | present · passive | the snake | daughters obl; however, sometimes property | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | gerund | a wife of outline's own species | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient | |||||
| 3 | share | present | daughters | Snake's parent's tastes and powers | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | taste | Snake's parent | nom taste «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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