Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 87

On the Waters of Strength and Weakness much stress is laid in many of the tales about the many-headed Snakes which carry off men's wives and daughters to their metallic castles.

Who acts: headed Snakes · What happens: lay, head, carry off · To what, where: Weakness much stress, many tales, wives, metallic castles

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 (headed Snakes), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 Waters	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Waters	det
3	Waters	Water	PROPN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Strength	case
5	Strength	Strength	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Waters	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 laid	cc
7	Weakness	Weakness	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 stress	compound
8	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stress	amod
9	stress	stress	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 laid	nsubj:pass
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 laid	aux:pass
11	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 Waters	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	16 tales	case
13	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 tales	amod
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 tales	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 tales	det
16	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 laid	obl
17	about	about	ADP	_	22 Snakes	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Snakes	det
19	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 headed	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 many	punct
21	headed	head	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 Snakes	amod
22	Snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 tales	nmod
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 carry	nsubj
24	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 Snakes	acl:relcl
25	off	off	ADP	_	24 carry	compound:prt
26	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 wives	nmod:poss
27	's	's	PART	_	26 men	case
28	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 carry	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 daughters	cc
30	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 wives	conj
31	to	to	ADP	_	34 castles	case
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 castles	nmod:poss
33	metallic	metallic	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 castles	compound
34	castles	castle	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 carry	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 Waters	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	lay	present · passive		Weakness much stress	the many tales about the headed Snakes	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in tale=Destination
2	head	participle				vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	carry off	present	the headed Snakes	men's wives and daughters	daughters's metallic castles	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent wife=Theme to castle=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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