Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 67
Of such a nature--to be accounted for only on the supposition that an evil spirit has taken up its abode in a human body[215]--is the witch who appears in the somewhat incomprehensible story that follows.
Who acts: witch, incomprehensible story · What happens: account, take up, be, appear, follow · To what, where: evil spirit, human body, witch, incomprehensible story
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 (witch, incomprehensible story), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 4 nature | case |
| 2 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 nature | det:predet |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 nature | det |
| 4 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 witch | obl |
| 5 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 accounted | punct |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 accounted | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 accounted | aux:pass |
| 8 | accounted | account | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 nature | acl:relcl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 supposition | case |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 supposition | advmod |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 supposition | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 supposition | det |
| 13 | supposition | supposition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 accounted | obl |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 taken | mark |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 spirit | det |
| 16 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 spirit | amod |
| 17 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 taken | aux |
| 19 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 accounted | advcl |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 taken | compound:prt |
| 21 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 abode | nmod:poss |
| 22 | abode | abode | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 taken | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 body | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 body | det |
| 25 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 body | amod |
| 26 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 taken | obl |
| 27 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 28 215 | punct |
| 28 | 215 | 215 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 body | appos |
| 29 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 28 215 | punct |
| 30 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 nature | punct |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 witch | cop |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 witch | det |
| 33 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 34 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 appears | nsubj |
| 35 | appears | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 witch | acl:relcl |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 story | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 story | det |
| 38 | somewhat | somewhat | ADV | _ | 39 incomprehensible | advmod |
| 39 | incomprehensible | incomprehensible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 story | amod |
| 40 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 appears | obl |
| 41 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 follows | nsubj |
| 42 | follows | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 story | acl:relcl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 33 witch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | account | to-infinitive · passive | for the supposition | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | take up | present · perfect · passive | a evil spirit | a human body | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme abode=Destination | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | the witch | of such nature | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | appear | present | the witch | the incomprehensible story | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in story=Location | ||||
| 5 | follow | present | the incomprehensible story | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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