Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 18
The supernatural steed which Katoma tamed belongs to an equine race which often figures in the Skazkas.
Who acts: Katoma, supernatural steed, equine race · What happens: tame, belong, figure · To what, where: supernatural steed, Skazkas
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Katoma, supernatural steed, equine race), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 steed | det |
| 2 | supernatural | supernatural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 steed | amod |
| 3 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 belongs | nsubj |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 tamed | obj |
| 5 | Katoma | Katoma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 tamed | nsubj |
| 6 | tamed | tame | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 steed | acl:relcl |
| 7 | belongs | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 race | case |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 race | det |
| 10 | equine | equine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 race | amod |
| 11 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 belongs | obl |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 figures | nsubj |
| 13 | often | often | ADV | _ | 14 figures | advmod |
| 14 | figures | figure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 race | acl:relcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 Skazkas | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Skazkas | det |
| 17 | Skazkas | Skazkas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 figures | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 belongs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tame | past | Katoma | the supernatural steed | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent which=Patient | ||||
| 2 | belong | present | the supernatural steed | to a equine race | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | figure | present | a equine race | the Skazkas | often property | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/45/18/