Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 105
It often happens that the heroine-stealer whom the hero of the story has to overcome is called, not Koshchei nor the Snake, but Vikhor,[292] the whirlwind.
Who acts: It, hero, heroine stealer · What happens: happen, have, overcome, call · To what, where: heroine stealer · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, hero, heroine stealer), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 happens | nsubj |
| 2 | often | often | ADV | _ | 3 happens | advmod |
| 3 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 called | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 stealer | det |
| 6 | heroine | heroine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stealer | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 heroine | punct |
| 8 | stealer | stealer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 called | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 has | obj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hero | det |
| 11 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 has | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 story | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 story | det |
| 14 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hero | nmod |
| 15 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 stealer | acl:relcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 overcome | mark |
| 17 | overcome | overcome | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 has | xcomp |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 called | aux:pass |
| 19 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 happens | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Koshchei | punct |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 Koshchei | advmod |
| 22 | Koshchei | Koshchei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 called | xcomp |
| 23 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 25 Snake | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Snake | det |
| 25 | Snake | Snake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Koshchei | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Vikhor | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 Vikhor | cc |
| 28 | Vikhor | Vikhor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Koshchei | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 292 | punct |
| 30 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 31 292 | punct |
| 31 | 292 | 292 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 Koshchei | list |
| 32 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 31 292 | punct |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 whirlwind | det |
| 34 | whirlwind | whirlwind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 called | xcomp |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 happens | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present | It | often property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | present | the hero of the story | the heroine stealer | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | overcome | to-infinitive | the heroine stealer not said here | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | call | present · passive | the heroine stealer | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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