Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16, sentence 50

After a time it came to life and began destroying all it found, etc. An interesting explanation of the stories of this class in which they are treated as nature-myths, is given by A. de Gubernatis in his "Zoological Mythology," chap. i. sect.

Who acts: wolf, A., stories · What happens: come, begin, destroy, find, treat, give · To what, where: life, children, class, Zoological Mythology

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 (wolf, A., stories), 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 life	case
7	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 began	cc
9	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
10	destroying	destroy	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 began	xcomp
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 found	det:predet
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 found	nsubj
13	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 destroying	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 etc.	punct
15	etc.	etc.	NOUN	Abbr=Yes Number=Plur	13 found	conj
16	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 explanation	det
17	interesting	interesting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 explanation	amod
18	explanation	explanation	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 etc.	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 stories	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 stories	det
21	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 explanation	nmod
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 class	case
23	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 class	det
24	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stories	nmod
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 which	case
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 treated	obl
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 treated	nsubj:pass
28	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 treated	aux:pass
29	treated	treat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 class	acl:relcl
30	as	as	ADP	_	33 myths	case
31	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 myths	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 nature	punct
33	myths	myth	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 treated	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 given	punct
35	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 given	aux:pass
36	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 came	conj
37	by	by	ADP	_	38 A.	case
38	A.	A.	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 given	obl
39	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 A.	flat
40	Gubernatis	Gubernatis	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 A.	flat
41	in	in	ADP	_	45 Mythology	case
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 Mythology	nmod:poss
43	"	"	PUNCT	_	45 Mythology	punct
44	Zoological	Zoological	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 Mythology	compound
45	Mythology	mythology	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 given	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 chap	punct
47	"	"	PUNCT	_	48 chap	punct
48	chap	chap	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 Mythology	appos
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	45 Mythology	punct
50	i.	i.	X	Foreign=Yes	51 sect	compound
51	sect	sect	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 Mythology	conj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	wolf		life	time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to life=Initial_Location
2	begin	past	wolf not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	destroy	gerund	wolf not said here					tree rules
4	find	past	wolf					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
5	treat	present · passive		children = child	this class		as nature myths	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme as myth=Attribute
6	give	present · passive	A.		king's Zoological Mythology and i. sect			vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
7	explain		the stories of this class					nom explanation «communication intransitive»: of=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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