Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16, sentence 212
In the Albanian story of "The Serpent Child," (Hahn, No. 100), the heroine, the wife of the man whom forty snake-sloughs encase, is assisted in her troubles by two subterranean beings whom she finds employed in baking.
Who acts: forty snake sloughs, two subterranean beings, wife · What happens: encase, assist, find, employ, trouble · To what, where: man, heroine, Albanian story, two subterranean beings, baking
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 (forty snake sloughs, two subterranean beings, wife), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg22373:2598): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 story | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 story | det |
| 3 | Albanian | Albanian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 story | amod |
| 4 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 assisted | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Child | case |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Child | punct |
| 7 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Child | det |
| 8 | Serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Child | compound |
| 9 | Child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 story | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Child | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Child | punct |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 Hahn | punct |
| 13 | Hahn | Hahn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 story | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 No. | punct |
| 15 | No. | no. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 13 Hahn | appos |
| 16 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 No. | nummod |
| 17 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 Hahn | punct |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 heroine | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 heroine | det |
| 20 | heroine | heroine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 assisted | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 wife | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 wife | det |
| 23 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 heroine | appos |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 man | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 man | det |
| 26 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 wife | nmod |
| 27 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 encase | obj |
| 28 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 sloughs | nummod |
| 29 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 sloughs | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 snake | punct |
| 31 | sloughs | slough | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 encase | nsubj |
| 32 | encase | encase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 man | acl:relcl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 wife | punct |
| 34 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 assisted | aux:pass |
| 35 | assisted | assist | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 troubles | case |
| 37 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 troubles | nmod:poss |
| 38 | troubles | trouble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 assisted | obl |
| 39 | by | by | ADP | _ | 42 beings | case |
| 40 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 42 beings | nummod |
| 41 | subterranean | subterranean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 beings | amod |
| 42 | beings | being | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 assisted | obl:agent |
| 43 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 45 finds | obj |
| 44 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 finds | nsubj |
| 45 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 beings | acl:relcl |
| 46 | employed | employ | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 45 finds | xcomp |
| 47 | in | in | ADP | _ | 48 baking | case |
| 48 | baking | baking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 employed | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 35 assisted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | encase | present | forty snake sloughs | the man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | assist | present · passive | two subterranean beings | the heroine | the Albanian story of the Serpent Child | in wife's troubles | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary | ||
| 3 | find | present | wife | two subterranean beings | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent whom=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | employ | participle | two subterranean beings not said here | baking | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | trouble | wife | nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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