Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 50
For the Snake is often mentioned as the possessor, or at least the guardian, of magic fluids.
What happens: mention
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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 Snake | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Snake | det |
| 3 | Snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mentioned | obl |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 mentioned | aux:pass |
| 5 | often | often | ADV | _ | 6 mentioned | advmod |
| 6 | mentioned | mention | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 possessor | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 possessor | det |
| 9 | possessor | possessor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mentioned | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 guardian | punct |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 guardian | cc |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 least | case |
| 13 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 guardian | obl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 guardian | det |
| 15 | guardian | guardian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 mentioned | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 fluids | punct |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 fluids | case |
| 18 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 fluids | amod |
| 19 | fluids | fluid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 guardian | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 mentioned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mention speech: other | present · passive | for the Snake; as the possessor; often property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S» |
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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