Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 60
In one of the Skazkas, a _volshebnitsa_ or enchantress is introduced, whose "death," like that of Koshchei, is spoken of as something definite and localized.
What happens: introduce, speak, localize · To what, where: volshebnitsa, that · Speech: someone speaks here
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: 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 | _ | 2 one | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 introduced | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Skazkas | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Skazkas | det |
| 5 | Skazkas | Skazkas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 introduced | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Skazkas | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 volshebnitsa | det |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 volshebnitsa | punct |
| 9 | volshebnitsa | volshebnitsa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 introduced | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 volshebnitsa | punct |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 enchantress | cc |
| 12 | enchantress | enchantress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 volshebnitsa | conj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 introduced | aux:pass |
| 14 | introduced | introduce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 death | punct |
| 16 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 18 death | nmod:poss |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 death | punct |
| 18 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 introduced | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 spoken | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 spoken | punct |
| 21 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 that | case |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 spoken | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Koshchei | case |
| 24 | Koshchei | Koshchei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 that | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 that | punct |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 spoken | aux:pass |
| 27 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 introduced | parataxis |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 something | case |
| 29 | as | as | ADP | _ | 30 something | case |
| 30 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 27 spoken | obl |
| 31 | definite | definite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 something | amod |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 localized | cc |
| 33 | localized | localize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 definite | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 introduced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | introduce | present · passive | a volshebnitsa or enchantress | in one; of the Skazkas; death obl | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | present · passive | that | of something | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | localize | participle | 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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