Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 97
In many cases, indeed, we find that one version of a story will allot to a Baba Yaga the part which in another version is played by a Witch.
Who acts: we, one version, Witch · What happens: find, allot, play · To what, where: many cases, Baba Yaga, part, version · Speech: someone speaks here
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, one version, Witch), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 cases | case |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cases | amod |
| 3 | cases | case | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 find | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 cases | punct |
| 5 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 3 cases | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 cases | punct |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 find | nsubj |
| 8 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 allot | mark |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 version | nummod |
| 11 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 allot | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 story | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 story | det |
| 14 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 version | nmod |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 allot | aux |
| 16 | allot | allot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 find | ccomp |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 Yaga | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 Yaga | det |
| 19 | Baba | Baba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Yaga | compound |
| 20 | Yaga | Yaga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 allot | obl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 part | det |
| 22 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Yaga | appos |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 played | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 version | case |
| 25 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 version | det |
| 26 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 played | obl |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 played | aux:pass |
| 28 | played | play | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 part | acl:relcl |
| 29 | by | by | ADP | _ | 31 Witch | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 Witch | det |
| 31 | Witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 played | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | we | many cases | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | allot | future | one version of a story | a Baba Yaga | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to yaga=Goal | ||||
| 3 | play | present · passive | a Witch | the part | another version | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme |
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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