Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 24
The glance of the Servian Vy is supposed to be as deadly as that of a basilisk, but the patriarch of the Russian story does not injure his captive.
Who acts: patriarch, Servian Vy · What happens: suppose, be, not injure, glance · To what, where: glance, captive
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 (patriarch, Servian Vy), 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 glance | det |
| 2 | glance | glance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 supposed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Vy | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Vy | det |
| 5 | Servian | Servian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Vy | compound |
| 6 | Vy | Vy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 glance | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 supposed | aux:pass |
| 8 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 deadly | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 deadly | cop |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 deadly | advmod |
| 12 | deadly | deadly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 supposed | xcomp |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 that | case |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 deadly | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 basilisk | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 basilisk | det |
| 17 | basilisk | basilisk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 that | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 injure | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 injure | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 patriarch | det |
| 21 | patriarch | patriarch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 injure | nsubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 story | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 story | det |
| 24 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 story | amod |
| 25 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 patriarch | nmod |
| 26 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 injure | aux |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 injure | advmod |
| 28 | injure | injure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 supposed | conj |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 captive | nmod:poss |
| 30 | captive | captive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 injure | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 supposed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose | present · passive | the glance of the Servian Vy | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | as that; deadly property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not injure | present · do-support | the patriarch of the Russian story | patriarch's captive | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | glance | the Servian Vy | nom glance «act 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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