Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 112
Many skazkas also contain, as we have already seen, very clear directions how to deprive a vampire of his baleful power.
Who acts: Many skazkas, we · What happens: contain, see, deprive · To what, where: clear directions, vampire
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., 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 (Many skazkas, we), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 skazkas | amod |
| 2 | skazkas | skazka | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 contain | nsubj |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 4 contain | advmod |
| 4 | contain | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 seen | punct |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 seen | mark |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 seen | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 seen | aux |
| 9 | already | already | ADV | _ | 10 seen | advmod |
| 10 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 contain | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 directions | punct |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 clear | advmod |
| 13 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 directions | amod |
| 14 | directions | direction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 seen | obl |
| 15 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 deprive | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 deprive | mark |
| 17 | deprive | deprive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 seen | advcl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 vampire | det |
| 19 | vampire | vampire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 deprive | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 power | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 power | nmod:poss |
| 22 | baleful | baleful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 power | amod |
| 23 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 vampire | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 contain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contain | present | Many skazkas | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | see | present · perfect | we | clear directions | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | deprive | to-infinitive | we not said here | a vampire of stranger's baleful power | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vampire=Source |
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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