Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 34

One of the strangest of the stories which turn on this idea of an external heart is the Samoyed tale,[135] in which seven brothers are in the habit, every night, of taking out their hearts and sleeping without them.

Who acts: stories, One, seven brothers · What happens: turn, be, take out, sleep · To what, where: idea, Samoyed tale, habit, hearts

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 (stories, One, seven brothers), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 tale	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 strangest	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 strangest	det
4	strangest	strange	ADJ	Degree=Sup	1 One	nmod
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 stories	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stories	det
7	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 strangest	obl
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 turn	nsubj
9	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 stories	acl:relcl
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 idea	case
11	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 idea	det
12	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 turn	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 heart	case
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 heart	det
15	external	external	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 heart	amod
16	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 idea	nmod
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 tale	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 tale	det
19	Samoyed	samoyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 tale	amod
20	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 135	punct
22	[	[	PUNCT	_	23 135	punct
23	135	135	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	20 tale	appos
24	]	]	PUNCT	_	23 135	punct
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 which	case
26	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	28 brothers	det
27	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 brothers	nummod
28	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 habit	nsubj
29	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 habit	cop
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 habit	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 habit	det
32	habit	habit	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tale	parataxis
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 night	punct
34	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	35 night	det
35	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 habit	appos
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 taking	punct
37	of	of	SCONJ	_	38 taking	mark
38	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 habit	parataxis
39	out	out	ADP	_	38 taking	compound:prt
40	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 hearts	nmod:poss
41	hearts	heart	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 taking	obj
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 sleeping	cc
43	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 taking	conj
44	without	without	ADP	_	45 them	case
45	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 sleeping	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 tale	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	turn	present	the stories		this idea of a external heart		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on idea=Trajectory
2	is a	present	One of the strangest	the Samoyed tale			tree rules
3	is	present	which seven brothers		the habit		tree rules
4	take out	gerund		brothers's hearts			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Theme
5	sleep	gerund				without brothers = brother	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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