Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 84
All the monstrous forms which figure in the stories we have just been considering appear to be merely different species of the great serpent family.
Who acts: monstrous forms, we · What happens: figure, consider, appear, be · To what, where: stories, different species
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 (monstrous forms, we), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 forms | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 forms | det |
| 3 | monstrous | monstrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 forms | amod |
| 4 | forms | form | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 appear | nsubj |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 figure | nsubj |
| 6 | figure | figure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 forms | acl:relcl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 stories | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stories | det |
| 9 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 figure | obl |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 considering | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 considering | aux |
| 12 | just | just | ADV | _ | 14 considering | advmod |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 considering | aux |
| 14 | considering | consider | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 stories | acl:relcl |
| 15 | appear | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 species | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 species | cop |
| 18 | merely | merely | ADV | _ | 20 species | advmod |
| 19 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 species | amod |
| 20 | species | species | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 appear | advcl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 family | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 family | det |
| 23 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 family | amod |
| 24 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 family | compound |
| 25 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 species | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 appear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | figure | present | all monstrous forms | the stories | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | consider | present · perfect · progressive | we | the stories not said here | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent story=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | appear | present | all monstrous forms | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a | to-infinitive | all monstrous forms not said here | different species | of the great serpent family; merely property | 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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