Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8, sentence 46
Among its wildest versions are the Albanian "Schlangenkind" (Hahn, No. 100), a very similar Roumanian tale (Ausland 1857, No. 43, quoted by Benfey), the Wallachian Trandafiru (Schott, No. 23, in which the husband is a pumpkin (_Kuerbiss_) by day), and the second of the Servian tales of the Snake-Husband (Vuk Karajich, No. 10).]
Who acts: husband, Snake Husband · What happens: be, quote, tell · To what, where: similar Roumanian tale, pumpkin, Schott · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (husband, Snake 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 | Among | among | ADP | _ | 4 versions | case |
| 2 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 versions | nmod:poss |
| 3 | wildest | wild | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 versions | amod |
| 4 | versions | version | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 Schlangenkind | obl |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 Schlangenkind | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Schlangenkind | det |
| 7 | Albanian | Albanian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Schlangenkind | amod |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Schlangenkind | punct |
| 9 | Schlangenkind | schlangenkind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Schlangenkind | punct |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 Hahn | punct |
| 12 | Hahn | Hahn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Schlangenkind | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 No. | punct |
| 14 | No. | No. | PROPN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 12 Hahn | appos |
| 15 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 No. | flat |
| 16 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 14 No. | punct |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 tale | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 tale | det |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 similar | advmod |
| 20 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 tale | amod |
| 21 | Roumanian | Roumanian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 tale | compound |
| 22 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Hahn | appos |
| 23 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 24 Ausland | punct |
| 24 | Ausland | Ausland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 tale | appos |
| 25 | 1857 | 1857 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 Ausland | flat |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 No. | punct |
| 27 | No. | no. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 24 Ausland | appos |
| 28 | 43 | 43 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 No. | flat |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 quoted | punct |
| 30 | quoted | quote | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 tale | acl |
| 31 | by | by | ADP | _ | 32 Benfey | case |
| 32 | Benfey | Benfey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 quoted | obl |
| 33 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 30 quoted | punct |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 Trandafiru | punct |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Trandafiru | det |
| 36 | Wallachian | Wallachian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Trandafiru | compound |
| 37 | Trandafiru | Trandafiru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Hahn | conj |
| 38 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 39 Schott | punct |
| 39 | Schott | Schott | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Trandafiru | appos |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 23 | punct |
| 41 | No. | No. | PROPN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 42 23 | nmod:unmarked |
| 42 | 23 | 23 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 39 Schott | appos |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 pumpkin | punct |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 which | case |
| 45 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 50 pumpkin | obl |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 husband | det |
| 47 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 pumpkin | nsubj |
| 48 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 50 pumpkin | cop |
| 49 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 50 pumpkin | det |
| 50 | pumpkin | pumpkin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 Schott | appos |
| 51 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 53 Kuerbiss | punct |
| 52 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 53 Kuerbiss | punct |
| 53 | Kuerbiss | Kuerbiss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 pumpkin | appos |
| 54 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 53 Kuerbiss | punct |
| 55 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 53 Kuerbiss | punct |
| 56 | by | by | ADP | _ | 57 day | case |
| 57 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 Kuerbiss | nmod |
| 58 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 53 Kuerbiss | punct |
| 59 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 62 second | punct |
| 60 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 62 second | cc |
| 61 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 62 second | det |
| 62 | second | second | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 Schott | appos |
| 63 | of | of | ADP | _ | 66 tales | case |
| 64 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 66 tales | det |
| 65 | Servian | servian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 66 tales | amod |
| 66 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 62 second | nmod |
| 67 | of | of | ADP | _ | 71 Husband | case |
| 68 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 71 Husband | det |
| 69 | Snake | Snake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 71 Husband | compound |
| 70 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 69 Snake | punct |
| 71 | Husband | Husband | PROPN | Number=Sing | 66 tales | nmod |
| 72 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 73 Vuk | punct |
| 73 | Vuk | Vuk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 71 Husband | appos |
| 74 | Karajich | Karajich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 73 Vuk | flat |
| 75 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 77 10 | punct |
| 76 | No. | No. | PROPN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 77 10 | nmod:unmarked |
| 77 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 73 Vuk | appos |
| 78 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 73 Vuk | punct |
| 79 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 62 second | punct |
| 80 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 39 Schott | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | among legend's wildest versions; Hahn and the Wallachian Trandafiru obl; schlangenkind property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | quote speech: other | participle | a similar Roumanian tale not said here | by Benfey | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | the husband | a pumpkin | Schott | tree rules | |||
| 4 | tell | the Snake Husband | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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