Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 100

Koshchei is merely one of the many incarnations of the dark spirit which takes so many monstrous shapes in the folk-tales of the class with which we are now dealing.

Who acts: Koshchei, dark spirit, we, class · What happens: be, take, deal, tell · To what, where: one, many monstrous shapes, folk tales · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Koshchei, dark spirit, we, class), 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	Koshchei	Koshchei	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 one	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 one	cop
3	merely	merely	ADV	_	4 one	advmod
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 incarnations	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 incarnations	det
7	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 incarnations	amod
8	incarnations	incarnation	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 one	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 spirit	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 spirit	det
11	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 spirit	compound
12	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 incarnations	nmod
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 takes	nsubj
14	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 spirit	acl:relcl
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 many	advmod
16	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 shapes	amod
17	monstrous	monstrous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 shapes	amod
18	shapes	shape	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 takes	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	23 tales	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 tales	det
21	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 tales	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 folk	punct
23	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 shapes	nmod
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 class	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 class	det
26	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 tales	nmod
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 which	case
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 dealing	obl
29	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 dealing	nsubj
30	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 dealing	aux
31	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 dealing	advmod
32	dealing	deal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 class	acl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 one	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Koshchei	one			of the many incarnations of the dark spirit; merely property	tree rules
2	take	present	the dark spirit	many monstrous shapes	the folk tales of the class			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent shape=Value in tale=Location
3	deal	present · progressive	we			now	with the class	vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with which=Theme
4	tell		the class					nom tale «communication 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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