Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 32

To these European tales a very interesting parallel is afforded by the Indian story of "Punchkin,"[134] whose life depends on that of a parrot, which is in a cage placed beneath the lowest of six jars of water, piled one on the other, and standing in the midst of a desolate country covered with thick jungle.

Who acts: Indian story, life, parrot · What happens: afford, depend, be, place, pile, stand · To what, where: interesting parallel, 134, cage, lowest, one, other

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 (Indian story, life, parrot), 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	To	to	ADP	_	4 tales	case
2	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 tales	det
3	European	European	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tales	amod
4	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 afforded	obl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 parallel	det
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 interesting	advmod
7	interesting	interesting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 parallel	amod
8	parallel	parallel	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 afforded	nsubj:pass
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 afforded	aux:pass
10	afforded	afford	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	by	by	ADP	_	14 story	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 story	det
13	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 story	amod
14	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 afforded	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 Punchkin	case
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 Punchkin	punct
17	Punchkin	Punchkin	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 story	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 depends	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 depends	punct
20	[	[	PUNCT	_	21 134	punct
21	134	134	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	25 depends	obl
22	]	]	PUNCT	_	21 134	punct
23	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	24 life	nmod:poss
24	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 depends	nsubj
25	depends	depend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 afforded	conj
26	on	on	ADP	_	27 that	case
27	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 depends	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 parrot	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 parrot	det
30	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 that	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 cage	punct
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 cage	nsubj
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 cage	cop
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 cage	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 cage	det
36	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 parrot	appos
37	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 cage	acl
38	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	40 lowest	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 lowest	det
40	lowest	low	ADJ	Degree=Sup	37 placed	obl
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 jars	case
42	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	43 jars	nummod
43	jars	jar	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 lowest	obl
44	of	of	ADP	_	45 water	case
45	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 jars	nmod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 piled	punct
47	piled	pile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 depends	parataxis
48	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	47 piled	obj
49	on	on	ADP	_	51 other	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 other	det
51	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 one	nmod
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 standing	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 standing	cc
54	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 afforded	advcl
55	in	in	ADP	_	57 midst	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 midst	det
57	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 standing	obl
58	of	of	ADP	_	61 country	case
59	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	61 country	det
60	desolate	desolate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	61 country	compound
61	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 midst	nmod
62	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	61 country	acl
63	with	with	ADP	_	65 jungle	case
64	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 jungle	amod
65	jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 covered	obl
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 afforded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	afford	present · passive	the Indian story of Punchkin	a interesting parallel		to this European tales	tree rules
2	depend	present	life	134		on that	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on that=Theme
3	is	present	a parrot		a cage		tree rules
4	place	participle		a cage not said here	the lowest		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent beneath low=Destination
5	pile	past		one	the other		vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent one=Theme on other=Destination
6	stand	gerund	the Indian story of Punchkin not said here		the midst of a desolate country		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in midst=Location
7	desolate	infinitive					tree rules
8	cover	participle		a desolate country not said here		with thick jungle	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with jungle=Theme

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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