Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 100
Far more in keeping with the vastness of her powers, and the vagueness of her outline, are the titles of Baba Yaga, Lamia, Striga, Troll-Wife, Ogress, or Dragoness, under which she figures in various lands.
Who acts: most · What happens: keep, be, figure · To what, where: more titles, Dragoness
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (most), 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 | Far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 more | advmod |
| 2 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 titles | amod |
| 3 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 4 keeping | mark |
| 4 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 more | advcl |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 vastness | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 vastness | det |
| 7 | vastness | vastness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 keeping | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 powers | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 powers | nmod:poss |
| 10 | powers | power | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 vastness | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 vagueness | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 vagueness | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 vagueness | det |
| 14 | vagueness | vagueness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 vastness | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 outline | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 outline | nmod:poss |
| 17 | outline | outline | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 vagueness | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 keeping | punct |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 titles | cop |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 titles | det |
| 21 | titles | title | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Yaga | case |
| 23 | Baba | Baba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Yaga | compound |
| 24 | Yaga | Yaga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 titles | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Lamia | punct |
| 26 | Lamia | Lamia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Yaga | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Striga | punct |
| 28 | Striga | Striga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Yaga | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 Wife | punct |
| 30 | Troll | troll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 Wife | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 Troll | punct |
| 32 | Wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Yaga | appos |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 Ogress | punct |
| 34 | Ogress | ogress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 Wife | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 Dragoness | punct |
| 36 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 37 Dragoness | cc |
| 37 | Dragoness | dragoness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Yaga | appos |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 figures | punct |
| 39 | under | under | ADP | _ | 40 which | case |
| 40 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 figures | obl |
| 41 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 figures | nsubj |
| 42 | figures | figure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 Dragoness | acl:relcl |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 lands | case |
| 44 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 lands | amod |
| 45 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 figures | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 titles | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | gerund | with the vastness of most's powers and the vagueness of most's outline | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | the more titles | of Baba Yaga and Lamia and Striga | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | figure | present | most | Dragoness | in various lands | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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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