Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 4

[224] The following story, belonging to the familiar Polyphemus-cycle, will serve to convey an idea of this baleful being, who in it takes a female form.

Who acts: 224, following story · What happens: follow, story, belong, serve, convey, be · To what, where: idea

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: who acts (224, following story), 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	_	2 224	punct
2	224	224	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 story	nsubj
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 224	punct
4	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 story	det
5	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 story	amod
6	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 serve	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 belonging	punct
8	belonging	belong	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 story	acl
9	to	to	ADP	_	14 cycle	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cycle	det
11	familiar	familiar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 cycle	amod
12	Polyphemus	Polyphemus	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 cycle	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 Polyphemus	punct
14	cycle	cycle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 belonging	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 story	punct
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 serve	aux
17	serve	serve	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	to	to	PART	_	19 convey	mark
19	convey	convey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 serve	xcomp
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 idea	det
21	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 convey	obj
22	of	of	SCONJ	_	24 baleful	mark
23	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 baleful	nsubj
24	baleful	baleful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 idea	acl
25	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 takes	cop
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 takes	punct
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 takes	nsubj
28	in	in	SCONJ	_	30 takes	mark
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 takes	nsubj
30	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 baleful	conj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 form	det
32	female	female	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 form	amod
33	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 takes	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 serve	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	story		224			tree rules
3	belong	gerund	the following story not said here		to the familiar Polyphemus cycle	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
4	serve	future				tree rules
5	convey	to-infinitive		a idea		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent idea=Topic
6	is	gerund			take 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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