Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 72

This Skazka is one of the many versions of a widespread tale, which tells how the youngest of a party, usually consisting of three persons, overcomes some supernatural foe, generally a dwarf, who had been more than a match for his companions.

Who acts: Skazka, widespread tale · What happens: be, tell, consist, overcome · To what, where: one, youngest, supernatural foe · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Skazka, widespread tale), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 Skazka	det
2	Skazka	Skazka	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 one	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 one	cop
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 versions	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 versions	det
7	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 versions	amod
8	versions	version	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 one	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 tale	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 tale	det
11	widespread	widespread	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tale	amod
12	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 versions	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 tells	punct
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 tells	nsubj
15	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 tale	acl:relcl
16	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 youngest	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 youngest	det
18	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 tells	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 party	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 party	det
21	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 youngest	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 consisting	punct
23	usually	usually	ADV	_	24 consisting	advmod
24	consisting	consist	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 one	acl:relcl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 persons	case
26	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 persons	nummod
27	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 consisting	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 overcomes	punct
29	overcomes	overcome	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 one	conj
30	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	32 foe	det
31	supernatural	supernatural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 foe	amod
32	foe	foe	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 overcomes	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 dwarf	punct
34	generally	generally	ADV	_	36 dwarf	advmod
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 dwarf	det
36	dwarf	dwarf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 overcomes	parataxis
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 more	punct
38	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 more	nsubj
39	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 more	aux
40	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	41 more	cop
41	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	36 dwarf	conj
42	than	than	ADP	_	44 match	case
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 match	det
44	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 more	obl
45	for	for	ADP	_	47 companions	case
46	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 companions	nmod:poss
47	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 match	nmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 one	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	this Skazka	one	of the many versions of a widespread tale	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	present	a widespread tale	the youngest		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent young=Recipient
3	consist	gerund			of three persons; usually property	tree rules
4	overcome	present	this Skazka not said here	some supernatural foe		vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot foe=Theme
5	is	past · perfect			than a match for Ivan's companions; more 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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