Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 3
Somewhat resembling the picture usually drawn of the supernatural Witch in the Skazkas, is that which some of them offer of a personification of evil called Likho.
What happens: resemble, draw, be, call · To what, where: picture, offer, evil · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. 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 | Somewhat | somewhat | ADV | _ | 2 resembling | advmod |
| 2 | resembling | resemble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 offer | advcl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 picture | det |
| 4 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 resembling | obj |
| 5 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 6 drawn | advmod |
| 6 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 resembling | advcl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 supernatural | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 supernatural | det |
| 9 | supernatural | supernatural | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 drawn | obl |
| 10 | Witch | Witch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 supernatural | appos |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 Skazkas | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Skazkas | det |
| 13 | Skazkas | Skazkas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Witch | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 resembling | punct |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 offer | cop |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 offer | mark |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 offer | nsubj |
| 18 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 offer | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 some | nmod |
| 21 | offer | offer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 personification | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 personification | det |
| 24 | personification | personification | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 offer | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 evil | case |
| 26 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 personification | nmod |
| 27 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 evil | acl |
| 28 | Likho | Likho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 called | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 offer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | resemble | gerund | the picture | somewhat property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | draw | participle | of the supernatural; usually property | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient of supernatural=Co-Patient | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | offer | of a personification of evil | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | call | participle | evil not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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