Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8, sentence 41
Benfey quotes or refers to a great number of the transformation tales in which a husband or a wife appears at times in the form of a snake (Panchatantra, i. pp.
Who acts: Benfey, husband · What happens: quote, refer, appear, form · To what, where: transformation tales, snake
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Benfey, husband), 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 | Benfey | Benfey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 quotes | nsubj |
| 2 | quotes | quote | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 4 refers | cc |
| 4 | refers | refer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 quotes | conj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 number | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 number | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 number | amod |
| 8 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 refers | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 tales | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tales | det |
| 11 | transformation | transformation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tales | compound |
| 12 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 number | nmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 which | case |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 appears | obl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 husband | det |
| 16 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 appears | nsubj |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 wife | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 wife | det |
| 19 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 husband | conj |
| 20 | appears | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 tales | parataxis |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 times | case |
| 22 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 appears | obl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 form | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 form | det |
| 25 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 appears | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 snake | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 snake | det |
| 28 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 form | nmod |
| 29 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 30 Panchatantra | punct |
| 30 | Panchatantra | Panchatantra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 snake | appos |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 pp | punct |
| 32 | i. | i. | X | Foreign=Yes | 33 pp | compound |
| 33 | pp | page | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 Panchatantra | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 quotes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quote speech: other | present | Benfey | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | refer | present | Benfey not said here | to a great number of the transformation tales | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to number=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | appear | present | a husband or a wife | the transformation tales | time | in the form of a snake | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location | ||
| 4 | form | a snake | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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