Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 82

The Princess, Marya Morevna, who slaughters whole armies before she is married, and then becomes mild and gentle, belongs to a class of heroines who frequently occur both in the stories and in the "metrical romances," and to whom may be applied the remarks made by Kemble with reference to a similar Amazon.

Who acts: Princess, slaughters, heroines · What happens: slaughter, marry, become, belong, occur, apply · To what, where: Marya, stories, remarks

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, slaughters, heroines), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Princess	det
2	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 becomes	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Marya	punct
4	Marya	Marya	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Princess	conj
5	Morevna	Morevna	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Marya	flat
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 slaughters	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 slaughters	nsubj
8	slaughters	slaughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Princess	conj
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 armies	amod
10	armies	army	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 slaughters	conj
11	before	before	SCONJ	_	14 married	mark
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 married	nsubj:pass
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 married	aux:pass
14	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 slaughters	acl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 becomes	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 becomes	cc
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 becomes	advmod
18	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	mild	mild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 becomes	xcomp
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 gentle	cc
21	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 mild	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 belongs	punct
23	belongs	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 becomes	conj
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 class	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 class	det
26	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 belongs	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 heroines	case
28	heroines	heroine	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 class	nmod
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 occur	nsubj
30	frequently	frequently	ADV	_	31 occur	advmod
31	occur	occur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 heroines	acl:relcl
32	both	both	CCONJ	_	35 stories	cc:preconj
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 stories	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 stories	det
35	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 occur	obj
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 romances	cc
37	in	in	ADP	_	41 romances	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 romances	det
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	41 romances	punct
40	metrical	metrical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 romances	amod
41	romances	romance	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 stories	conj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 class	punct
43	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 belongs	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 applied	cc
45	to	to	ADP	_	46 whom	case
46	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	49 applied	obl
47	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 applied	aux
48	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	49 applied	aux:pass
49	applied	apply	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 belongs	conj
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 remarks	det
51	remarks	remark	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 applied	obj
52	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	51 remarks	acl
53	by	by	ADP	_	54 Kemble	case
54	Kemble	Kemble	PROPN	Number=Sing	52 made	obl:agent
55	with	with	ADP	_	56 reference	case
56	reference	reference	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 made	obl
57	to	to	ADP	_	60 Amazon	case
58	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	60 Amazon	det
59	similar	similar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 Amazon	amod
60	Amazon	Amazon	PROPN	Number=Sing	56 reference	nmod
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 becomes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	slaughter		the Princess and Marya and slaughters and whole armies				tree rules
2	marry	present · passive	slaughters and whole armies not said here	Marya			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	become	present	the Princess and Marya and slaughters and whole armies		then	mild property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	belong	present	the Princess and Marya and slaughters and whole armies not said here			to a class of heroines	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
5	occur	present	heroines	the stories and the metrical romances		frequently property	tree rules
6	apply	may · passive	the Princess and Marya and slaughters and whole armies not said here	the remarks			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: remark=Theme
7	make	participle		the remarks not said here		with reference to a similar Amazon	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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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