Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 101

And therefore it is in her capacity of Baba Yaga, rather than in that of _Vyed'ma_, that we desire to study the behavior of the Russian equivalent for the terrible female form which figures in the Anglo-Saxon poem as the Mother of Grendel.

Who acts: supernatural, we, terrible female form · What happens: be, desire, study, figure · To what, where: capacity, behavior, Saxon poem

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 (supernatural, we, terrible female form), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 capacity	cc
2	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	7 capacity	advmod
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 capacity	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 capacity	cop
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 capacity	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 capacity	nmod:poss
7	capacity	capacity	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Baba	case
9	Baba	Baba	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 capacity	nmod
10	Yaga	Yaga	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Baba	flat
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 that	punct
12	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	15 that	cc
13	than	than	ADP	_	12 rather	fixed
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 that	case
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 Baba	appos
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 Vyed'ma	case
17	_	_	PUNCT	_	16 of	punct
18	Vyed'ma	Vyed'ma	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 that	nmod
19	_	_	PUNCT	_	15 that	punct
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 desire	punct
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 desire	mark
22	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 desire	nsubj
23	desire	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 capacity	parataxis
24	to	to	PART	_	25 study	mark
25	study	study	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 desire	xcomp
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 behavior	det
27	behavior	behavior	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 study	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 equivalent	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 equivalent	det
30	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 equivalent	amod
31	equivalent	equivalent	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 behavior	nmod
32	for	for	ADP	_	36 form	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 form	det
34	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 form	amod
35	female	female	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 form	compound
36	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 study	obl
37	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 figures	nsubj
38	figures	figure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 form	acl:relcl
39	in	in	ADP	_	44 poem	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 poem	det
41	Anglo	Anglo	X	_	43 Saxon	compound
42	-	-	PUNCT	_	41 Anglo	punct
43	Saxon	Saxon	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 poem	compound
44	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 figures	obl
45	as	as	ADP	_	47 Mother	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 Mother	det
47	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 poem	nmod
48	of	of	ADP	_	49 Grendel	case
49	Grendel	Grendel	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 Mother	nmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 capacity	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	supernatural		most's capacity	of Baba; therefore property	tree rules
2	desire	present	we				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	study not said to happen	to-infinitive	we not said here	the behavior of the Russian equivalent		for the terrible female form	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent behavior=Theme for form=Attribute
4	figure	present	the terrible female form		the Saxon poem as the Mother of Grendel		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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