Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16, sentence 185
[208] "Some storytellers," says Afanasief, "substitute the word snake (_zmei_) in the Skazka for that of witch (_vyed'ma_)."
Who acts: Afanasief · What happens: say, substitute · To what, where: word snake, Skazka · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Afanasief), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 208 | punct |
| 2 | 208 | 208 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 208 | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 storytellers | punct |
| 5 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 storytellers | det |
| 6 | storytellers | storyteller | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 208 | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 storytellers | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 says | punct |
| 9 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 208 | conj |
| 10 | Afanasief | Afanasief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 says | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 substitute | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 substitute | punct |
| 13 | substitute | substitute | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 says | ccomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 snake | det |
| 15 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 snake | compound |
| 16 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 substitute | obj |
| 17 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 19 zmei | punct |
| 18 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 19 zmei | punct |
| 19 | zmei | zmei | X | Foreign=Yes | 16 snake | appos |
| 20 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 19 zmei | punct |
| 21 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 19 zmei | punct |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 Skazka | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Skazka | det |
| 24 | Skazka | Skazka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 substitute | obl |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 witch | case |
| 26 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 witch | det |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 witch | case |
| 28 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 substitute | obl |
| 29 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 31 vyed'ma | punct |
| 30 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 31 vyed'ma | punct |
| 31 | vyed'ma | vyed'ma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 witch | appos |
| 32 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 31 vyed'ma | punct |
| 33 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 31 vyed'ma | punct |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 208 | punct |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 208 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Afanasief | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | substitute in a quote | infinitive | the word snake | the Skazka | for that witch | vn substitute-13.6.2 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Theme snake=Location |
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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