Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 157
The teacher, in this story, is merely called a magician; but as in other Russian versions of it his counterpart is always described as being demoniacal, and is often openly styled a devil, it may be assumed that Oh belongs to the supernatural order of beings.
What happens: call, describe, be, assume, belong, order · To what, where: teacher, counterpart, other Russian versions, beings · 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: 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 | 2 teacher | det |
| 2 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 called | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 story | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 story | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 story | det |
| 6 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 teacher | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 teacher | punct |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 called | aux:pass |
| 9 | merely | merely | ADV | _ | 10 called | advmod |
| 10 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 magician | det |
| 12 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 called | xcomp |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 42 assumed | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 42 assumed | cc |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 described | mark |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 versions | case |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 versions | amod |
| 18 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 versions | amod |
| 19 | versions | version | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 described | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 versions | nmod |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 counterpart | nmod:poss |
| 23 | counterpart | counterpart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 described | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 described | aux:pass |
| 25 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 26 described | advmod |
| 26 | described | describe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 assumed | advcl |
| 27 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 demoniacal | mark |
| 28 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 demoniacal | cop |
| 29 | demoniacal | demoniacal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 described | xcomp |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 styled | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 styled | cc |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 styled | cop |
| 33 | often | often | ADV | _ | 35 styled | advmod |
| 34 | openly | openly | ADV | _ | 35 styled | advmod |
| 35 | styled | style | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 described | conj |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 devil | det |
| 37 | devil | devil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 styled | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 described | punct |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 assumed | nsubj:pass |
| 40 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 assumed | aux |
| 41 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 42 assumed | aux:pass |
| 42 | assumed | assume | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 called | conj |
| 43 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 45 belongs | mark |
| 44 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 45 belongs | discourse |
| 45 | belongs | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 assumed | ccomp |
| 46 | to | to | ADP | _ | 49 order | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 order | det |
| 48 | supernatural | supernatural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 order | amod |
| 49 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 belongs | obl |
| 50 | of | of | ADP | _ | 51 beings | case |
| 51 | beings | being | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 order | nmod |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present · passive | the teacher and this story | merely property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | describe | present · passive | teacher's counterpart | other Russian versions of magician | always property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | gerund | demoniacal property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is | present | often, openly, style property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | assume | may · passive | counterpart | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | belong | present | to the supernatural order of beings | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | order | beings | nom order «communication transitive»: of=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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