Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 65
But there is one class of stories in which the _Vyed'ma_ is represented as differing from the Baba Yaga, in so far as she is the offspring of parents who are not in any way supernatural or inhuman.
Who acts: one class, class, parents · What happens: be, represent, differ, not be · To what, where: Vyed'ma, offspring, way
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 (one class, class, parents), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 is | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 class | nummod |
| 5 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 is | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 stories | case |
| 7 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 class | nmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 which | case |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 represented | obl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Vyed'ma | det |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 Vyed'ma | punct |
| 12 | Vyed'ma | Vyed'ma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 represented | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 Vyed'ma | punct |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 represented | aux:pass |
| 15 | represented | represent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 stories | acl:relcl |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 differing | mark |
| 17 | differing | differ | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 represented | advcl |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 Yaga | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Yaga | det |
| 20 | Baba | Baba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Yaga | compound |
| 21 | Yaga | Yaga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 differing | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 offspring | punct |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 offspring | case |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 far | advmod |
| 25 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 30 offspring | advmod |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 30 offspring | case |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 offspring | nsubj |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 offspring | cop |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 offspring | det |
| 30 | offspring | offspring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 differing | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 parents | case |
| 32 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 offspring | nmod |
| 33 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 way | nsubj |
| 34 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 way | cop |
| 35 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 38 way | advmod |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 way | case |
| 37 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 38 way | det |
| 38 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 parents | nmod |
| 39 | supernatural | supernatural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 way | amod |
| 40 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 41 inhuman | cc |
| 41 | inhuman | inhuman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 supernatural | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | one class of stories | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | represent | present · passive | the Vyed'ma | in stories | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme in which=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | differ | gerund | from the Baba Yaga | vn differ-23.4 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme from yaga=Co-Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | present | class | the offspring | of parents; far property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | not is | present | parents | any way | tree rules |
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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