Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 28
[132] Closely connected with the Greek tale is the Servian story of the dragon[133] whose "strength" (_snaga_) lies in a sparrow, which is inside a dove, inside a hare, inside a boar, inside a dragon (_ajdaya_) which is in a lake, near a royal city.
Who acts: 132, Servian story, sparrow, dragon · What happens: connect, be, lie · To what, where: Servian story, sparrow, dove, lake
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (132, Servian story, sparrow, dragon), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 132 | punct |
| 2 | 132 | 132 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 story | nsubj |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 132 | punct |
| 4 | Closely | closely | ADV | _ | 5 connected | advmod |
| 5 | connected | connect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 132 | acl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 tale | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tale | det |
| 8 | Greek | Greek | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 tale | amod |
| 9 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 connected | obl |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 story | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 story | det |
| 12 | Servian | servian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 story | amod |
| 13 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 lies | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 dragon | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 dragon | det |
| 16 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 story | nmod |
| 17 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 18 133 | punct |
| 18 | 133 | 133 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 dragon | appos |
| 19 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 18 133 | punct |
| 20 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 22 strength | nmod:poss |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 strength | punct |
| 22 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 133 | nmod:unmarked |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 133 | punct |
| 24 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 26 snaga | punct |
| 25 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 26 snaga | punct |
| 26 | snaga | snaga | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 story | appos |
| 27 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 26 snaga | punct |
| 28 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 26 snaga | punct |
| 29 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 sparrow | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 sparrow | det |
| 32 | sparrow | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 lies | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 dove | punct |
| 34 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 dove | nsubj |
| 35 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 dove | cop |
| 36 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 38 dove | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 dove | det |
| 38 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 sparrow | appos |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 hare | punct |
| 40 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 42 hare | case |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 hare | det |
| 42 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 dove | conj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 boar | punct |
| 44 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 46 boar | case |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 boar | det |
| 46 | boar | boar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 dove | conj |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 dragon | punct |
| 48 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 50 dragon | case |
| 49 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 50 dragon | det |
| 50 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 lies | parataxis |
| 51 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 53 ajdaya | punct |
| 52 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 53 ajdaya | punct |
| 53 | ajdaya | ajdaya | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 dragon | appos |
| 54 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 53 ajdaya | punct |
| 55 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 53 ajdaya | punct |
| 56 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 60 lake | nsubj |
| 57 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 60 lake | cop |
| 58 | in | in | ADP | _ | 60 lake | case |
| 59 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 60 lake | det |
| 60 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 dragon | conj |
| 61 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 65 city | punct |
| 62 | near | near | ADP | _ | 65 city | case |
| 63 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 65 city | det |
| 64 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 65 city | amod |
| 65 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 60 lake | advcl |
| 66 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 lies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | connect | participle | with the Greek tale; closely property | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient with tale=Co-Patient | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | 132 | the Servian story | of the dragon | tree rules | |||
| 3 | lie | present | the Servian story | a sparrow | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sparrow=Location | ||||
| 4 | is | present | a sparrow | a dove and a hare and a boar | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | present | a dragon and a lake | a lake | tree rules |
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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