Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 81

And this song is one which promises wealth, a fact connecting the Russian fish with that Scandinavian pike which was a shape assumed by Andvari--the dwarf-guardian of the famous treasure, from which sprang the woes recounted in the _Voelsunga Saga_ and the _Nibelungenlied_.

Who acts: song, fact, Scandinavian pike, woes · What happens: be, promise, connect, assume, spring, recount · To what, where: one, wealth, Russian fish, shape, Voelsunga Saga

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (song, fact, Scandinavian pike, woes), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 one	cc
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 song	det
3	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 one	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 one	cop
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 promises	nsubj
7	promises	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 one	acl:relcl
8	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 promises	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fact	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 fact	det
11	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 one	parataxis
12	connecting	connect	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 fact	acl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fish	det
14	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 fish	amod
15	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 connecting	obj
16	with	with	ADP	_	19 pike	case
17	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 pike	det
18	Scandinavian	scandinavian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 pike	amod
19	pike	pike	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 connecting	obl
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 shape	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 shape	cop
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 shape	det
23	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 pike	acl:relcl
24	assumed	assume	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 shape	acl
25	by	by	ADP	_	26 Andvari	case
26	Andvari	Andvari	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 assumed	obl
27	--	--	PUNCT	_	31 guardian	punct
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 guardian	det
29	dwarf	dwarf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 guardian	amod
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 dwarf	punct
31	guardian	guardian	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 shape	conj
32	of	of	ADP	_	35 treasure	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 treasure	det
34	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 treasure	amod
35	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 guardian	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 sprang	punct
37	from	from	ADP	_	38 which	case
38	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 sprang	nsubj
39	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 fact	acl
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 woes	det
41	woes	woe	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 recounted	nsubj
42	recounted	recount	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 sprang	ccomp
43	in	in	ADP	_	47 Saga	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 Saga	det
45	_	_	PUNCT	_	46 Voelsunga	punct
46	Voelsunga	Voelsunga	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 Saga	compound
47	Saga	Saga	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 recounted	obl
48	_	_	PUNCT	_	39 sprang	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 Nibelungenlied	cc
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 Nibelungenlied	det
51	_	_	PUNCT	_	52 Nibelungenlied	punct
52	Nibelungenlied	Nibelungenlied	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 fact	conj
53	_	_	PUNCT	_	11 fact	punct
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 one	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	this song	one			tree rules
2	promise speech: promise	present		wealth			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent wealth=Theme
3	connect	gerund	a fact and the Nibelungenlied not said here	the Russian fish		with that Scandinavian pike	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent fish=Patient with pike=Co-Patient
4	is a	past	that Scandinavian pike	a shape and the dwarf guardian of the famous treasure			tree rules
5	assume	participle		a shape and the dwarf guardian of the famous treasure not said here		by Andvari	vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	spring	past	a fact and the Nibelungenlied				tree rules
7	recount speech: other	past	the woes		the Voelsunga Saga		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/46/81/