Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 56

In some cases the magic waters are the property, not of a Snake, but of one of the mighty heroines who so often occur in these stories, and who bear so great a resemblance to Brynhild, as well in other respects as in that of her enchanted sleep.

Who acts: magic waters, mighty heroines, Brynhild · What happens: be, occur, bear, enchant, sleep · To what, where: property, cases, stories, resemblance, other respects

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: who acts (magic waters, mighty heroines, Brynhild), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 cases	case
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 cases	det
3	cases	case	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 property	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 waters	det
5	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 waters	compound
6	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 property	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 property	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 property	det
9	property	property	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Snake	punct
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 Snake	advmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 Snake	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 Snake	det
14	Snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 property	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 one	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 one	cc
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 one	case
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 property	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 heroines	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 heroines	det
21	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 heroines	amod
22	heroines	heroine	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 one	nmod
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 occur	nsubj
24	so	so	ADV	_	26 occur	advmod
25	often	often	ADV	_	26 occur	advmod
26	occur	occur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 heroines	acl:relcl
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 stories	case
28	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	29 stories	det
29	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 occur	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 bear	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 bear	cc
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 bear	nsubj
33	bear	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 one	parataxis
34	so	so	ADV	_	35 great	advmod
35	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 bear	xcomp
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 resemblance	det
37	resemblance	resemblance	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 bear	obj
38	to	to	ADP	_	39 Brynhild	case
39	Brynhild	Brynhild	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 resemblance	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 respects	punct
41	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	45 respects	cc
42	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	41 as	fixed
43	in	in	ADP	_	45 respects	case
44	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 respects	amod
45	respects	respects	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 bear	obl
46	as	as	ADP	_	48 that	case
47	in	in	ADP	_	48 that	case
48	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	45 respects	nmod
49	of	of	ADP	_	52 sleep	case
50	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 sleep	nmod:poss
51	enchanted	enchant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	52 sleep	amod
52	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 that	nmod
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 property	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the magic waters	the property and a Snake	some cases		tree rules
2	occur	present	the mighty heroines		this stories	often property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in story=Location
3	bear	present		a resemblance	other respects as that	to Brynhild; great property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent resemblance=Patient
4	enchant	participle					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	sleep		Brynhild				nom sleep «state intransitive»: 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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