Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 96
In one of the skazkas a malignant witch is destroyed by a benignant female power.
Who acts: benignant female power · What happens: destroy · To what, where: malignant witch
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (benignant female power), 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 | _ | 2 one | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 skazkas | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 skazkas | det |
| 5 | skazkas | skazka | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 one | nmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 witch | det |
| 7 | malignant | malignant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 witch | amod |
| 8 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 destroyed | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 destroyed | aux:pass |
| 10 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 skazkas | acl:relcl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 power | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 power | det |
| 13 | benignant | benignant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 power | amod |
| 14 | female | female | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 power | amod |
| 15 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 destroyed | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | destroy | present · passive | a benignant female power | a malignant witch | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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.
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