Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 96

In the Russian, as well as in the Oriental stories, it is generally the curiosity of a man, not of a woman, which leads to the opening of the prohibited room.

Who acts: doubt, woman · What happens: be, lead, prohibit · To what, where: curiosity

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 (doubt, woman), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 Russian	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Russian	det
3	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 as	punct
5	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	3 Russian	advmod
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 as	fixed
7	as	as	ADP	_	5 as	fixed
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 stories	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 stories	det
10	Oriental	Oriental	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 stories	compound
11	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 as	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Russian	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 curiosity	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 curiosity	cop
15	generally	generally	ADV	_	17 curiosity	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 curiosity	det
17	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Russian	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 man	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 man	det
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 curiosity	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 woman	punct
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 woman	advmod
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 woman	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 woman	det
25	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 curiosity	parataxis
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 leads	punct
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 leads	nsubj
28	leads	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 woman	conj
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 opening	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 opening	det
31	opening	opening	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 leads	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	35 room	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 room	det
34	prohibited	prohibit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 room	amod
35	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 opening	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 curiosity	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	doubt	the curiosity	of a man; generally property	tree rules
2	lead	present	a woman		to the opening of the prohibited room	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to opening=Patient
3	prohibit	participle				vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer

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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