Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 90

It may seem more difficult to account for the willingness of Norka's three sisters to aid in his destruction--unless, indeed, the whole story be considered to be mythological, as its Indian equivalents undoubtedly are.

Who acts: It, Norka · What happens: seem, aid, consider, be, destroy · To what, where: difficult account, destruction, whole story

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 (It, Norka), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 seem	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 seem	aux
3	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 difficult	advmod
5	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 account	amod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 account	mark
7	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seem	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 willingness	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 willingness	det
10	willingness	willingness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seem	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	15 sisters	case
12	Norka	Norka	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 sisters	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 Norka	case
14	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 sisters	nummod
15	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 willingness	nmod
16	to	to	PART	_	17 aid	mark
17	aid	aid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 seem	xcomp
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 destruction	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 destruction	nmod:poss
20	destruction	destruction	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 aid	obl
21	--	--	PUNCT	_	30 considered	punct
22	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	30 considered	mark
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 unless	punct
24	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	30 considered	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 indeed	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 story	det
27	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 story	amod
28	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 considered	nsubj:pass
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 considered	aux:pass
30	considered	consider	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 aid	advcl
31	to	to	PART	_	33 mythological	mark
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 mythological	cop
33	mythological	mythological	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 considered	xcomp
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 equivalents	punct
35	as	as	ADP	_	38 equivalents	case
36	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 equivalents	nmod:poss
37	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 equivalents	amod
38	equivalents	equivalent	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 considered	conj
39	undoubtedly	undoubtedly	ADV	_	38 equivalents	advmod
40	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 undoubtedly	cop
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 seem	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seem	may	It	difficult account		for the willingness of Norka's three sisters	tree rules
2	aid	to-infinitive			Norka's destruction		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	consider a condition, not said to happen	infinitive · passive		the whole story		indeed property	vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute
4	is	to-infinitive				mythological property	tree rules
5	is	present				undoubtedly property	tree rules
6	destroy		Norka				nom destruction «act transitive»: poss=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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