Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 30

This frequently occurs in that class of stories which relates how three brothers set out to apprehend a trespasser, or to seek a mother or sister who has been mysteriously spirited away.

Who acts: This, stories · What happens: occur, relate, set out, apprehend, seek, spirit away · To what, where: class, three brothers, trespasser, mother

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 (This, stories), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 occurs	nsubj
2	frequently	frequently	ADV	_	3 occurs	advmod
3	occurs	occur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 class	case
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 class	det
6	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 occurs	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 stories	case
8	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 class	nmod
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 relates	nsubj
10	relates	relate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 stories	acl:relcl
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 set	advmod
12	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 brothers	nummod
13	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 set	nsubj:pass
14	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 relates	ccomp
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 set	compound:prt
16	to	to	PART	_	17 apprehend	mark
17	apprehend	apprehend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 set	xcomp
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 trespasser	det
19	trespasser	trespasser	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 apprehend	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 seek	punct
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 seek	cc
22	to	to	PART	_	23 seek	mark
23	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 apprehend	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 mother	det
25	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 seek	obj
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 sister	cc
27	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 mother	conj
28	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 spirited	nsubj
29	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 spirited	aux
30	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 spirited	aux:pass
31	mysteriously	mysteriously	ADV	_	32 spirited	advmod
32	spirited	spirit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 mother	acl:relcl
33	away	away	ADV	_	32 spirited	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 occurs	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	occur	present	This		that class of stories	frequently property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in class=Location
2	relate	present	stories				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	set out	participle · passive		three brothers			tree rules
4	apprehend	to-infinitive		a trespasser			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer trespasser=Stimulus
5	seek	to-infinitive		a mother or sister			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Theme
6	spirit away	present · perfect · passive		a mother or sister		away, mysteriously property	tree rules

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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