Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 49

Such liquors as these are known as the "Waters of Strength and Weakness," and are usually described as being stowed away in the cellar of some many-headed Snake.

What happens: know, describe, stow away · To what, where: Such liquors, cellar

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 1. 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	Such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 liquors	amod
2	liquors	liquor	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 known	nsubj:pass
3	as	as	ADP	_	4 these	case
4	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 liquors	nmod
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 known	aux:pass
6	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	as	as	ADP	_	10 Waters	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Waters	det
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 Waters	punct
10	Waters	Water	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 known	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Strength	case
12	Strength	Strength	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Waters	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 Weakness	cc
14	Weakness	Weakness	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Strength	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Waters	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 Waters	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 described	cc
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 described	aux:pass
19	usually	usually	ADV	_	20 described	advmod
20	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 known	conj
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 stowed	mark
22	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 stowed	aux:pass
23	stowed	stow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 described	xcomp
24	away	away	ADV	_	23 stowed	advmod
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 cellar	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 cellar	det
27	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stowed	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	33 Snake	case
29	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	33 Snake	det
30	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 headed	amod
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 many	punct
32	headed	headed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 Snake	amod
33	Snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cellar	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 known	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	present · passive	Such liquors as these		as the Waters of Strength and Weakness	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as water=Attribute
2	describe	present · passive			usually property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: clause=Theme
3	stow away	gerund · passive		the cellar of some headed Snake	away property	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: in cellar=Destination

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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