Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 167
The group to which all these stories belong is linked with a set of tales about a father who apprentices his son to a wizard, sometimes to the Devil, from whom the youth escapes with great difficulty.
Who acts: stories, father, youth · What happens: belong, link, apprentice, escape · To what, where: group, son
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stories, father, youth), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 group | det |
| 2 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 linked | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 which | case |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 belong | obl |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 stories | det:predet |
| 6 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 stories | det |
| 7 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 belong | nsubj |
| 8 | belong | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 group | acl:relcl |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 linked | aux:pass |
| 10 | linked | link | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 set | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 set | det |
| 13 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 linked | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 tales | case |
| 15 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 set | nmod |
| 16 | about | about | ADP | _ | 18 father | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 father | det |
| 18 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tales | nmod |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 apprentices | nsubj |
| 20 | apprentices | apprentice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 father | acl:relcl |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 son | nmod:poss |
| 22 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 apprentices | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 wizard | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 wizard | det |
| 25 | wizard | wizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 apprentices | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Devil | punct |
| 27 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 30 Devil | advmod |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 Devil | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Devil | det |
| 30 | Devil | Devil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 wizard | appos |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 escapes | punct |
| 32 | from | from | ADP | _ | 33 whom | case |
| 33 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 escapes | obl |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 youth | det |
| 35 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 escapes | nsubj |
| 36 | escapes | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 apprentices | conj |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 difficulty | case |
| 38 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 difficulty | amod |
| 39 | difficulty | difficulty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 escapes | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 linked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | belong | present | all stories | to the group | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | link | present · passive | the group | with a set of tales about a father | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with set=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | apprentice | present | a father | story's son | to a wizard | vn orphan-29.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme | |||
| 4 | escape | present | the youth | with great difficulty | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from whom=Initial_Location |
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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