Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, sentence 60
A far more detailed account might be given of the Witch and her near relation the Baba Yaga, as well as of those masculine embodiments of that spirit of evil which is personified in them, the Snake, Koshchei, and other similar beings.
What happens: give, personify · To what, where: detailed account, evil
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | 5 account | det |
| 2 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 more | advmod |
| 3 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 detailed | advmod |
| 4 | detailed | detailed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 account | amod |
| 5 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 given | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 given | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 given | aux:pass |
| 8 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Witch | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Witch | det |
| 11 | Witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 given | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 relation | cc |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 relation | nmod:poss |
| 14 | near | near | ADP | _ | 15 relation | case |
| 15 | relation | relation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Witch | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Yaga | det |
| 17 | Baba | Baba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Yaga | compound |
| 18 | Yaga | Yaga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 given | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 embodiments | punct |
| 20 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 26 embodiments | cc |
| 21 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 as | fixed |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 as | fixed |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 as | fixed |
| 24 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 26 embodiments | det |
| 25 | masculine | masculine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 embodiments | amod |
| 26 | embodiments | embodiment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 Yaga | conj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 spirit | case |
| 28 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 spirit | det |
| 29 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 embodiments | nmod |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 evil | case |
| 31 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 spirit | nmod |
| 32 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 personified | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 personified | aux:pass |
| 34 | personified | personify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 evil | acl:relcl |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 them | case |
| 36 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 personified | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 Snake | punct |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 Snake | det |
| 39 | Snake | Snake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Yaga | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 Koshchei | punct |
| 41 | Koshchei | Koshchei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Yaga | conj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 beings | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 beings | cc |
| 44 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 beings | amod |
| 45 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 beings | amod |
| 46 | beings | being | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 given | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | might · passive | a detailed account | of the Witch and witch's relation; the Baba Yaga as that masculine embodiments of that spirit of evil and the Snake and Koshchei obl; other similar beings obl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | personify | present · passive | evil | in embodiments = embodiment | 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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