Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 73
They possess all kinds of supernatural powers, but their wits are often dull.
Who acts: beings, wits · What happens: possess, be · To what, where: kinds
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beings, wits), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 possess | nsubj |
| 2 | possess | possess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 kinds | det |
| 4 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 possess | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 powers | case |
| 6 | supernatural | supernatural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 powers | amod |
| 7 | powers | power | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 kinds | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 dull | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 dull | cc |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 wits | nmod:poss |
| 11 | wits | wit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 dull | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 dull | cop |
| 13 | often | often | ADV | _ | 14 dull | advmod |
| 14 | dull | dull | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 possess | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 possess | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | possess | present | beings = being | all kinds of supernatural powers | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot kind=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | beings's wits | dull, often 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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