Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 64

A comparison of these three stories is sufficient to show how closely connected are the Witch and the Baba Yaga, how readily the name of either of the two may be transferred to the other.

Who acts: comparison · What happens: be, show, connect, transfer, compare · To what, where: Witch, two, other, three stories · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (comparison), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 comparison	det
2	comparison	comparison	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sufficient	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 stories	case
4	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 stories	det
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 stories	nummod
6	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 comparison	nmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 sufficient	cop
8	sufficient	sufficient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 show	mark
10	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 sufficient	advcl
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	12 closely	advmod
12	closely	closely	ADV	_	13 connected	advmod
13	connected	connect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 show	ccomp
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 Witch	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Witch	det
16	Witch	Witch	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 sufficient	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 Yaga	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Yaga	det
19	Baba	Baba	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Yaga	compound
20	Yaga	Yaga	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Witch	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 name	punct
22	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	23 readily	advmod
23	readily	readily	ADV	_	25 name	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 name	det
25	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 Witch	appos
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 either	case
27	either	either	DET	PronType=Ind	25 name	nmod
28	of	of	SCONJ	_	33 transferred	mark
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 two	det
30	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 transferred	nsubj:pass
31	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 transferred	aux
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 transferred	aux:pass
33	transferred	transfer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 either	acl
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 other	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 other	det
36	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 transferred	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 sufficient	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	a comparison of this three stories			sufficient property	tree rules
2	show	to-infinitive	a comparison of this three stories not said here				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	connect	participle				closely property	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	is a	present		the Witch and the Baba Yaga			tree rules
5	transfer	may · passive		the two	the other		vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to other=Recipient
6	compare			this three stories			nom comparison «act transitive»: of=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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