Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 85
Such names as Koshchei, Chudo Yudo, Usuinya, and the like, seem to admit of exchange at the will of the story-teller with that of Zmei Goruinuich, the many-headed Snake, who in Russian storyland is represented as the type of all that is evil.
Who acts: Such names, type · What happens: seem, admit, head, represent, be · To what, where: story teller, headed Snake, Russian storyland, type
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 (Such names, type), 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 | Such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 names | amod |
| 2 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 seem | nsubj |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 4 Koshchei | case |
| 4 | Koshchei | Koshchei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 names | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Chudo | punct |
| 6 | Chudo | Chudo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Koshchei | conj |
| 7 | Yudo | Yudo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Chudo | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Usuinya | punct |
| 9 | Usuinya | Usuinya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Koshchei | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 seem | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 seem | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 like | det |
| 13 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 15 seem | discourse |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 like | punct |
| 15 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 admit | mark |
| 17 | admit | admit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 seem | xcomp |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 exchange | case |
| 19 | exchange | exchange | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 admit | obl |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 teller | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 teller | det |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 teller | aux |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 teller | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 teller | det |
| 25 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 teller | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 story | punct |
| 27 | teller | teller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 admit | obl |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 that | case |
| 29 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 teller | nmod |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Zmei | case |
| 31 | Zmei | Zmei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 teller | nmod |
| 32 | Goruinuich | Goruinuich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Zmei | flat |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 Snake | punct |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Snake | det |
| 35 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 headed | compound |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 many | punct |
| 37 | headed | head | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 Snake | amod |
| 38 | Snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 Zmei | appos |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 represented | punct |
| 40 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 45 represented | nsubj |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 storyland | case |
| 42 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 storyland | amod |
| 43 | storyland | storyland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 represented | obl |
| 44 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 represented | aux:pass |
| 45 | represented | represent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 Snake | acl:relcl |
| 46 | as | as | ADP | _ | 48 type | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 type | det |
| 48 | type | type | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 represented | obl |
| 49 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 all | case |
| 50 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 48 type | nmod |
| 51 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 53 evil | nsubj |
| 52 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 53 evil | cop |
| 53 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 type | acl:relcl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 seem | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | present | Such names as Koshchei and Chudo and Usuinya | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | admit speech: other | to-infinitive | Such names as Koshchei and Chudo and Usuinya not said here | the story teller with that of Zmei | of exchange | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent at teller=Location | |||
| 3 | head | participle | vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | represent | present · passive | the headed Snake | Russian storyland | as the type of all | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme as type=Attribute | |||
| 5 | is | present | the type of all | the type of all not said here | evil 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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