Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 29
We have seen, in the story about the Chudo-Yudo, that the place usually occupied by the Snake is at times filled by some other magical being.
Who acts: We, place, times · What happens: see, be, fill · To what, where: story, other magical
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 (We, place, times), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 seen | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 seen | aux |
| 3 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 story | punct |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 story | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 story | det |
| 7 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seen | obj |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 Yudo | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Yudo | det |
| 10 | Chudo | Chudo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Yudo | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Chudo | punct |
| 12 | Yudo | Yudo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 story | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 times | punct |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 times | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 place | det |
| 16 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 times | nsubj |
| 17 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 18 occupied | advmod |
| 18 | occupied | occupied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 place | amod |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 Snake | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Snake | det |
| 21 | Snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 occupied | obl |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 times | cop |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 times | case |
| 24 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 seen | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 times | acl |
| 26 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 29 magical | mark |
| 27 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 magical | nsubj |
| 28 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 magical | amod |
| 29 | magical | magical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 filled | obl |
| 30 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 magical | advcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present · perfect | We | the story | about the Chudo Yudo | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is | present | the place | at times | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fill | participle | times not said here | other magical | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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