Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 99
For the snake is much given to abduction, especially when he appears under the terrible form of "Koshchei, the Deathless."
Who acts: name · What happens: give, appear, form · To what, where: abduction, terrible form, Koshchei
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 (name), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 snake | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 snake | det |
| 3 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 given | obl |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 given | aux:pass |
| 5 | much | much | ADV | _ | 6 given | advmod |
| 6 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 abduction | case |
| 8 | abduction | abduction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 given | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 appears | punct |
| 10 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 13 appears | advmod |
| 11 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 13 appears | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 appears | nsubj |
| 13 | appears | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 given | conj |
| 14 | under | under | ADP | _ | 17 form | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 form | det |
| 16 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 form | amod |
| 17 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 appears | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Koshchei | case |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 Koshchei | punct |
| 20 | Koshchei | Koshchei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 form | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Deathless | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Deathless | det |
| 23 | Deathless | Deathless | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Koshchei | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 given | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · passive | abduction | for the snake | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: for snake=Asset to abduction=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | appear | present | name | the terrible form of Koshchei and the Deathless | especially property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under form=Location | |||
| 3 | form | Koshchei and the Deathless | nom form «communication transitive»: of=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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