Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 164

Morfei the Cook is merely a development of the magic cudgel which in so many stories (_e.g._ the sixth of the Calmuck tales) is often exchanged for other treasures by its master, to whom it soon returns--it being itself a degraded form of the hammer of Thor, the lance of Indra, which always came back to the divine hand that had hurled it.

Who acts: Morfei, master, sixth, lance, divine hand · What happens: be, exchange, return, degrade, come back, hurl · To what, where: development, sixth, degraded form, divine hand

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Morfei, master, sixth, lance), 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	Morfei	Morfei	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 development	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Cook	det
3	Cook	Cook	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Morfei	appos
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 development	cop
5	merely	merely	ADV	_	7 development	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 development	det
7	development	development	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 cudgel	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cudgel	det
10	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cudgel	compound
11	cudgel	cudgel	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 development	nmod
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 stories	nsubj
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 stories	case
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 many	advmod
15	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 stories	amod
16	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 cudgel	parataxis
17	(	(	PUNCT	_	19 e.g.	punct
18	_	_	PUNCT	_	19 e.g.	punct
19	e.g.	e.g.	ADV	_	16 stories	conj
20	_	_	PUNCT	_	30 exchanged	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 sixth	det
22	sixth	sixth	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 exchanged	nsubj:pass
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 tales	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 tales	det
25	Calmuck	Calmuck	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 tales	compound
26	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 sixth	nmod
27	)	)	PUNCT	_	26 tales	punct
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 exchanged	aux:pass
29	often	often	ADV	_	30 exchanged	advmod
30	exchanged	exchange	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 e.g.	acl
31	for	for	ADP	_	33 treasures	case
32	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 treasures	amod
33	treasures	treasure	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 exchanged	obl
34	by	by	ADP	_	36 master	case
35	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 master	nmod:poss
36	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 exchanged	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 whom	punct
38	to	to	ADP	_	39 whom	case
39	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 exchanged	obl
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 returns	nsubj
41	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	42 returns	advmod
42	returns	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 whom	acl:relcl
43	--	--	PUNCT	_	49 form	punct
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 form	nsubj
45	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	49 form	cop
46	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	45 being	obj
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 form	det
48	degraded	degrade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	49 form	amod
49	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 e.g.	appos
50	of	of	ADP	_	52 hammer	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 hammer	det
52	hammer	hammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 form	nmod
53	of	of	ADP	_	54 Thor	case
54	Thor	Thor	PROPN	Number=Sing	52 hammer	nmod
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 lance	punct
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 lance	det
57	lance	lance	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 hammer	conj
58	of	of	ADP	_	59 Indra	case
59	Indra	Indra	PROPN	Number=Sing	57 lance	nmod
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 came	punct
61	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	63 came	nsubj
62	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	63 came	advmod
63	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 lance	parataxis
64	back	back	ADV	_	63 came	advmod
65	to	to	ADP	_	68 hand	case
66	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	68 hand	det
67	divine	divine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	68 hand	amod
68	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 came	obl
69	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	71 hurled	nsubj
70	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	71 hurled	aux
71	hurled	hurl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	68 hand	acl:relcl
72	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	71 hurled	obj
73	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 development	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Morfei	a development		of the magic cudgel; merely property	tree rules
2	exchange	present · passive	sixth's master	the sixth of the Calmuck tales		for other treasures; often property	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent subject=Theme for treasure=Co-Theme
3	return	present	sixth			soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	degrade	participle					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	is a	gerund	sixth	a degraded form		of the hammer of Thor and the lance of Indra	tree rules
6	come back	past	the lance of Indra		the divine hand	always property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hand=Initial_Location
7	hurl	past · perfect	the divine hand	sixth			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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