Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 18
The leading idea of the story is the same, but the Snake or Koshchei has become a paltry wood-demon, the hero is a mere hunter, and the princely heroine has sunk to the low estate of a priest's daughter.
Who acts: leading idea, Snake, hero · What happens: lead, be, become, sink · To what, where: paltry wood demon, mere hunter, princely heroine
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 (leading idea, Snake, hero), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 idea | det |
| 2 | leading | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 idea | amod |
| 3 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 same | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 story | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 story | det |
| 6 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 idea | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 same | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 same | det |
| 9 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 become | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 become | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Snake | det |
| 13 | Snake | Snake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 become | nsubj |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 Koshchei | cc |
| 15 | Koshchei | Koshchei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Snake | conj |
| 16 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 become | aux |
| 17 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 same | parataxis |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 demon | det |
| 19 | paltry | paltry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 demon | amod |
| 20 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 demon | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 wood | punct |
| 22 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 become | xcomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 hunter | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 hero | det |
| 25 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 hunter | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 hunter | cop |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 hunter | det |
| 28 | mere | mere | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 hunter | amod |
| 29 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 demon | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 sunk | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 sunk | cc |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 heroine | det |
| 33 | princely | princely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 heroine | amod |
| 34 | heroine | heroine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 sunk | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 sunk | aux |
| 36 | sunk | sink | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 same | parataxis |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 estate | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 estate | det |
| 39 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 estate | amod |
| 40 | estate | estate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 sunk | obl |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 daughter | case |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 priest | det |
| 43 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 44 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 43 priest | case |
| 45 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 estate | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 same | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | gerund | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | the leading idea of the story | same property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | become | present · perfect | the Snake or Koshchei | a paltry wood demon and a mere hunter | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | the hero | a mere hunter | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | sink | present · perfect · passive | the princely heroine | to the low estate of a priest's daughter | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
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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