Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 82
She is closely connected with the Snake in different forms; in many stories, indeed, the leading part has been ascribed by one narrator to a Snake and by another to a Baba Yaga.
Who acts: one narrator · What happens: connect, lead, ascribe · To what, where: Yaga, different forms, leading part
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 (one narrator), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 connected | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 connected | aux:pass |
| 3 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 4 connected | advmod |
| 4 | connected | connect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 Snake | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Snake | det |
| 7 | Snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 connected | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 forms | case |
| 9 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 forms | amod |
| 10 | forms | form | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 connected | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 stories | punct |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 stories | case |
| 13 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 stories | amod |
| 14 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 connected | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 indeed | punct |
| 16 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 14 stories | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 ascribed | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 part | det |
| 19 | leading | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 part | amod |
| 20 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ascribed | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 ascribed | aux |
| 22 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 ascribed | aux:pass |
| 23 | ascribed | ascribe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 stories | acl |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 narrator | case |
| 25 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 narrator | nummod |
| 26 | narrator | narrator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ascribed | obl |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 Snake | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 Snake | det |
| 29 | Snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ascribed | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 another | cc |
| 31 | by | by | ADP | _ | 32 another | case |
| 32 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 Snake | conj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 Yaga | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 Yaga | det |
| 35 | Baba | Baba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Yaga | compound |
| 36 | Yaga | Yaga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 another | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 connected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | connect | present · passive | Yaga | different forms | with the Snake; closely property | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with snake=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | lead | gerund | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | ||||||
| 3 | ascribe | present · perfect · passive | one narrator | the leading part | to a Snake | 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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