Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 53

What gives its special importance, as well as its poetical charm, to the skazka which has been quoted, is the introduction of Frost as the power to which the stepmother has recourse for the furtherance of her murderous plans, and by which she, in the persons of her own daughters, is ultimately punished.

Who acts: stepmother · What happens: give, quote, be, have, punish, further · To what, where: special importance, introduction, recourse, stepmother, murderous plans

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 (stepmother), 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 gives	nsubj
2	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 importance	nmod:poss
4	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 importance	amod
5	importance	importance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gives	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 charm	punct
7	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	12 charm	cc
8	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 as	fixed
9	as	as	ADP	_	7 as	fixed
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 charm	nmod:poss
11	poetical	poetical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 charm	amod
12	charm	charm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gives	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 skazka	punct
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 skazka	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 skazka	det
16	skazka	skazka	X	Foreign=Yes	12 charm	appos
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 quoted	nsubj:pass
18	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 quoted	aux
19	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 quoted	aux:pass
20	quoted	quote	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 skazka	acl:relcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 introduction	punct
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 introduction	cop
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 introduction	det
24	introduction	introduction	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 charm	conj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 Frost	case
26	Frost	frost	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 introduction	nmod
27	as	as	ADP	_	29 power	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 power	det
29	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 introduction	nmod
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 which	case
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 has	obl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 stepmother	det
33	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 has	nsubj
34	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 power	acl:relcl
35	recourse	recourse	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 has	obj
36	for	for	ADP	_	38 furtherance	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 furtherance	det
38	furtherance	furtherance	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 recourse	nmod
39	of	of	ADP	_	42 plans	case
40	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 plans	nmod:poss
41	murderous	murderous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 plans	amod
42	plans	plan	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 furtherance	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 punished	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 punished	cc
45	by	by	ADP	_	46 which	case
46	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	59 punished	obl
47	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 punished	nsubj:pass
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 persons	punct
49	in	in	ADP	_	51 persons	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 persons	det
51	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 she	conj
52	of	of	ADP	_	55 daughters	case
53	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 daughters	nmod:poss
54	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 daughters	amod
55	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 persons	nmod
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 she	punct
57	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	59 punished	aux:pass
58	ultimately	ultimately	ADV	_	59 punished	advmod
59	punished	punish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 gives	conj
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gives	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	give	present		hatred's special importance		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent importance=Theme
2	quote speech: other	present · perfect · passive				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
3	is a	present		the introduction	of Frost; as the power	tree rules
4	have	present	the stepmother	recourse	to the power; for the furtherance of stepmother's murderous plans	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent recourse=Patient
5	punish	present · passive		stepmother	ultimately property	vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
6	further			stepmother's murderous plans		nom furtherance «communication transitive»: of=patient
7	plan		stepmother			nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=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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