Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 101

Sometimes he is described as altogether serpent-like in form; sometimes he seems to be of a mixed nature, partly human and partly ophidian, but in some of the stories he is apparently framed after the fashion of a man.

Who acts: spirit · What happens: describe, seem, mix, be, frame · To what, where: spirit

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 (spirit), 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	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 described	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 described	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 described	aux:pass
4	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 like	mark
6	altogether	altogether	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 like	amod
7	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 like	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 serpent	punct
9	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 described	advcl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 form	case
11	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 like	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 seems	punct
13	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	15 seems	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 seems	nsubj
15	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 described	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	21 nature	mark
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 nature	cop
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 nature	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 nature	det
20	mixed	mix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 nature	amod
21	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 seems	ccomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 human	punct
23	partly	partly	ADV	_	24 human	advmod
24	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 nature	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 ophidian	cc
26	partly	partly	ADV	_	27 ophidian	advmod
27	ophidian	ophidian	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 human	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 framed	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	38 framed	cc
30	in	in	ADP	_	34 stories	case
31	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	34 stories	det
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 stories	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 stories	det
34	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 framed	obl
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 framed	nsubj
36	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 framed	aux:pass
37	apparently	apparently	ADV	_	38 framed	advmod
38	framed	frame	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 seems	conj
39	after	after	ADP	_	41 fashion	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 fashion	det
41	fashion	fashion	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 framed	obl
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 man	case
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 man	det
44	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 fashion	nmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 described	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	describe	present · passive		spirit		sometimes property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme
2	seem	present	spirit			sometimes property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	mix	participle					vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	is	to-infinitive	spirit not said here			of a mixed nature	tree rules
5	be		spirit not said here			partly property	tree rules
6	frame	present · passive		spirit	after the fashion of a man	in some stories; apparently property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in story=Theme

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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