Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 8, sentence 223

The incident of wishes being fulfilled by a fish occurs in many stories, as in that of "The Fisherman," in the "Arabian Nights," "The Fisherman and his Wife," in Grimm (_KM.

Who acts: fish, incident · What happens: fulfil, occur · To what, where: wishes, many stories

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fish, incident), 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	2 incident	det
2	incident	incident	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 occurs	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 wishes	case
4	wishes	wish	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 incident	nmod
5	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 fulfilled	aux:pass
6	fulfilled	fulfil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 wishes	acl
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 fish	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 fish	det
9	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fulfilled	obl
10	occurs	occur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 stories	case
12	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 stories	amod
13	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 occurs	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 that	punct
15	as	as	ADP	_	17 that	case
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 that	case
17	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 occurs	parataxis
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 Fisherman	case
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 Fisherman	punct
20	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Fisherman	det
21	Fisherman	Fisherman	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 that	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Fisherman	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 Fisherman	punct
24	in	in	ADP	_	28 Nights	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Nights	det
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 Nights	punct
27	Arabian	Arabian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 Nights	amod
28	Nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 Fisherman	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 Nights	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 Nights	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 Fisherman	punct
32	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Fisherman	det
33	Fisherman	Fisherman	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Nights	nmod
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 Wife	cc
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 Wife	nmod:poss
36	Wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 Fisherman	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 Wife	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 Fisherman	punct
39	in	in	ADP	_	40 Grimm	case
40	Grimm	Grimm	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Fisherman	nmod
41	(	(	PUNCT	_	43 KM	punct
42	_	_	PUNCT	_	43 KM	punct
43	KM	km	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 Fisherman	appos
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 occurs	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fulfil	gerund · passive	a fish	wishes not said here					tree rules
2	occur	present	the incident of wishes			many stories			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in story=Location

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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