Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 95
We will now turn to another female embodiment of evil, frequently mentioned in the Skazkas--the Witch.
Who acts: We · What happens: turn, mention · To what, where: female embodiment, Skazkas
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 (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 turn | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 turn | aux |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 turn | advmod |
| 4 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 embodiment | case |
| 6 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 embodiment | det |
| 7 | female | female | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 embodiment | amod |
| 8 | embodiment | embodiment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turn | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 evil | case |
| 10 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 embodiment | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 mentioned | punct |
| 12 | frequently | frequently | ADV | _ | 13 mentioned | advmod |
| 13 | mentioned | mention | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 turn | advcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 Skazkas | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Skazkas | det |
| 16 | Skazkas | Skazkas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 mentioned | obl |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 Witch | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Witch | det |
| 19 | Witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Skazkas | appos |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 turn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | future | We | another female embodiment of evil | now | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to embodiment=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | mention speech: other | participle | We not said here | the Skazkas | frequently property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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