Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 1
The skazka of Ivan Buikovich (Bull's son)[81] contains a variant of part of this story, but the dragon which the Slavonic St. George kills is called, not a snake, but a Chudo-Yudo.
Who acts: skazka, Slavonic George, part · What happens: contain, kill, call, vary · To what, where: variant, dragon · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (skazka, Slavonic George, part), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 skazka | det |
| 2 | skazka | skazka | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 contains | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Ivan | case |
| 4 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 skazka | nmod |
| 5 | Buikovich | Buikovich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Ivan | flat |
| 6 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 9 son | punct |
| 7 | Bull | Bull | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 son | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Bull | case |
| 9 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Ivan | appos |
| 10 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 9 son | punct |
| 11 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 12 81 | punct |
| 12 | 81 | 81 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 Ivan | appos |
| 13 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 12 81 | punct |
| 14 | contains | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 variant | det |
| 16 | variant | variant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 contains | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 part | case |
| 18 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 variant | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 story | case |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 story | det |
| 21 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 part | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 called | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 33 called | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 dragon | det |
| 25 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 called | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 kills | obj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 George | det |
| 28 | Slavonic | Slavonic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 George | flat |
| 29 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 George | nmod:desc |
| 30 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 kills | nsubj |
| 31 | kills | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 dragon | acl:relcl |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 called | aux:pass |
| 33 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 contains | parataxis |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 snake | punct |
| 35 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 37 snake | advmod |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 snake | det |
| 37 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 called | xcomp |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 Yudo | punct |
| 39 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 43 Yudo | cc |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 Yudo | det |
| 41 | Chudo | Chudo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 Yudo | compound |
| 42 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 41 Chudo | punct |
| 43 | Yudo | Yudo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 called | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 contains | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contain | present | the skazka of Ivan | a variant of part of this story | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot variant=Theme | ||||
| 2 | kill | present | the Slavonic George St. | the dragon | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | ||||
| 3 | call | present · passive | the dragon | a Chudo Yudo obl | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | vary | part of this story | nom variant «event intransitive»: of=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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