Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 83
She possesses the usual magic apparatus by which enchantresses work their wonders; the Day and the Night (according to the following story) are among her servants, the entire animal world lies at her disposal.
Who acts: Yaga, enchantresses, Day, entire animal world, parts · What happens: possess, work, accord, follow, be, lie · To what, where: usual magic apparatus, wonders, disposal
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 (Yaga, enchantresses, Day, entire animal world), 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 | 2 possesses | nsubj |
| 2 | possesses | possess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 apparatus | det |
| 4 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 apparatus | amod |
| 5 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 apparatus | compound |
| 6 | apparatus | apparatus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 possesses | obj |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 which | case |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 work | obl |
| 9 | enchantresses | enchantress | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 work | nsubj |
| 10 | work | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 apparatus | acl:relcl |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 wonders | nmod:poss |
| 12 | wonders | wonder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 work | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 Day | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Day | det |
| 15 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 servants | nsubj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Night | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Night | det |
| 18 | Night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Day | conj |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 24 story | punct |
| 20 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 story | case |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 according | fixed |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 story | det |
| 23 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 story | amod |
| 24 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Day | appos |
| 25 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 24 story | punct |
| 26 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 servants | cop |
| 27 | among | among | ADP | _ | 29 servants | case |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 servants | nmod:poss |
| 29 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 possesses | parataxis |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 lies | punct |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 world | det |
| 32 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 world | amod |
| 33 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 world | compound |
| 34 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 lies | nsubj |
| 35 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 servants | advcl |
| 36 | at | at | ADP | _ | 38 disposal | case |
| 37 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 disposal | nmod:poss |
| 38 | disposal | disposal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 lies | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 possesses | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | possess | present | Yaga | the usual magic apparatus | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot apparatus=Theme | ||||
| 2 | work | present | enchantresses | parts's wonders | by the usual magic apparatus | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent wonder=Material | |||
| 3 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | is | present | the Day and the Night | among Yaga's servants | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | lie | present | the entire animal world | Yaga's disposal | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at disposal=Location | ||||
| 7 | wonder | parts = part | nom wonder «feeling transitive»: poss=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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