Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 8
In all these matters the Russian and the Western tales agree, but the Skazka differs from most stories of its kind in this respect, that it almost invariably speaks of _two_ kinds of magic waters as being employed for the restoration of life.
Who acts: these, Western tales, Skazka · What happens: matter, agree, differ, speak, employ · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (these, Western tales, Skazka), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 4 matters | mark |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 matters | det:predet |
| 3 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 matters | nsubj |
| 4 | matters | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 differs | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Russian | det |
| 6 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 matters | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 agree | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tales | det |
| 9 | Western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tales | amod |
| 10 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 agree | nsubj |
| 11 | agree | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 matters | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 differs | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 differs | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Skazka | det |
| 15 | Skazka | Skazka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 differs | nsubj |
| 16 | differs | differ | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 stories | case |
| 18 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 stories | amod |
| 19 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 differs | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 kind | case |
| 21 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 kind | nmod:poss |
| 22 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stories | nmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 respect | case |
| 24 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 respect | det |
| 25 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 kind | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 speaks | punct |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 speaks | mark |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 speaks | nsubj |
| 29 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 30 invariably | advmod |
| 30 | invariably | invariably | ADV | _ | 31 speaks | advmod |
| 31 | speaks | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 differs | conj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 kinds | case |
| 33 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 32 of | punct |
| 34 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 36 kinds | nummod |
| 35 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 36 kinds | punct |
| 36 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 speaks | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 waters | case |
| 38 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 waters | compound |
| 39 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 kinds | nmod |
| 40 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 42 employed | mark |
| 41 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 42 employed | aux:pass |
| 42 | employed | employ | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 speaks | advcl |
| 43 | for | for | ADP | _ | 45 restoration | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 restoration | det |
| 45 | restoration | restoration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 employed | obl |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 life | case |
| 47 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 restoration | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 differs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | matter | present | these | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | agree speech: agree | present | the Western tales | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | differ | present | the Skazka | from most stories of Skazka's kind in this respect | vn differ-23.4 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme from story=Co-Theme | ||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | present | Skazka | of two kinds of magic waters; invariably property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | employ | gerund · passive | Skazka not said here | for the restoration of life | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: for restoration=Eventuality |
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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