Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 17

In it we see reduced to a vulgar form, and brought into accordance with everyday peasant-life, the myth which appears to have given rise to the endless stories about the theft and recovery of queens and princesses.

Who acts: we, myth, queens · What happens: see, reduce, bring, appear, give, rise · To what, where: skazka, vulgar form, accordance, endless stories

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, myth, queens), 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 it	case
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 see	obl
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 see	nsubj
4	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	reduced	reduce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 see	xcomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 form	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 form	det
8	vulgar	vulgar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 form	amod
9	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reduced	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 brought	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 brought	cc
12	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 see	conj
13	into	into	ADP	_	14 accordance	case
14	accordance	accordance	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 brought	obl
15	with	with	ADP	_	19 life	case
16	everyday	everyday	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 life	amod
17	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 life	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 peasant	punct
19	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 brought	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 myth	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 myth	det
22	myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 life	conj
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 appears	nsubj
24	appears	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 myth	acl:relcl
25	to	to	PART	_	27 given	mark
26	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 given	aux
27	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 appears	advcl
28	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 given	xcomp
29	to	to	ADP	_	32 stories	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 stories	det
31	endless	endless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 stories	amod
32	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 rise	obl
33	about	about	ADP	_	35 theft	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 theft	det
35	theft	theft	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 stories	nmod
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 recovery	cc
37	recovery	recovery	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 theft	conj
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 queens	case
39	queens	queen	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 recovery	nmod
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 princesses	cc
41	princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 queens	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	see	present	we	skazka		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	reduce	participle	we not said here		to a vulgar form goal	vn limit-76 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer to form=Goal
3	bring	past	we not said here	accordance	with everyday peasant life and the myth	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into accordance=Destination
4	appear	present	the myth			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	give	to-infinitive · perfect	the myth not said here			tree rules
6	rise	infinitive	the myth not said here	the endless stories about the theft and recovery of queens and princesses		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to story=Initial_Location
7	recover		queens and princesses			nom recovery «event 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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