Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16, sentence 85
In character the Yaga often resembles a Rakshasi.
Who acts: Yaga · What happens: resemble · To what, where: Rakshasi, character
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 (Yaga), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 character | case |
| 2 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 resembles | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Yaga | det |
| 4 | Yaga | Yaga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 resembles | nsubj |
| 5 | often | often | ADV | _ | 6 resembles | advmod |
| 6 | resembles | resemble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 Rakshasi | det |
| 8 | Rakshasi | Rakshasi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 resembles | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 resembles | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | resemble | present | the Yaga | a Rakshasi | character | often property | 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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