Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 70

On the other hand the snake (_uzh_, the harmless or common snake) is highly esteemed, for tradition says that when the Devil, in the form of a mouse, had gnawed a hole in the Ark, and thereby endangered the safety of Noah and his family, the snake stopped up the leak with its head.

Who acts: tradition, snake · What happens: esteem, say, gnaw, endanger, stop up, form · To what, where: snake, other hand, Devil, safety, leak, mouse · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tradition, snake), 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	On	on	ADP	_	4 hand	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hand	det
3	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hand	amod
4	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 esteemed	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 snake	det
6	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 esteemed	nsubj:pass
7	(	(	PUNCT	_	9 uzh	punct
8	_	_	PUNCT	_	9 uzh	punct
9	uzh	uzh	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 snake	appos
10	_	_	PUNCT	_	9 uzh	punct
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 snake	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 snake	det
13	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 snake	amod
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 common	cc
15	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 harmless	conj
16	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 uzh	conj
17	)	)	PUNCT	_	9 uzh	punct
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 esteemed	aux:pass
19	highly	highly	ADV	_	20 esteemed	advmod
20	esteemed	esteem	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 says	punct
22	for	for	SCONJ	_	24 says	mark
23	tradition	tradition	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 says	nsubj
24	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 esteemed	conj
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 gnawed	mark
26	when	when	SCONJ	_	38 gnawed	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Devil	det
28	Devil	Devil	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 gnawed	nsubj:pass
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 form	punct
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 form	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 form	det
32	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 Devil	appos
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 mouse	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 mouse	det
35	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 form	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 Devil	punct
37	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 gnawed	aux
38	gnawed	gnaw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 says	ccomp
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 hole	det
40	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 gnawed	obj
41	in	in	ADP	_	43 Ark	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 Ark	det
43	Ark	Ark	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 hole	nmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 endangered	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 endangered	cc
46	thereby	thereby	ADV	_	47 endangered	advmod
47	endangered	endanger	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 esteemed	parataxis
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 safety	det
49	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 endangered	obj
50	of	of	ADP	_	51 Noah	case
51	Noah	Noah	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 safety	nmod
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 family	cc
53	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 family	nmod:poss
54	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 safety	conj
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 stopped	punct
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 snake	det
57	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 stopped	nsubj
58	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 endangered	conj
59	up	up	ADP	_	58 stopped	compound:prt
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 leak	det
61	leak	leak	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 stopped	obj
62	with	with	ADP	_	64 head	case
63	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	64 head	nmod:poss
64	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 leak	nmod
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 esteemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	esteem	present · passive		the snake	the other hand	highly property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	present	tradition				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	gnaw	past · perfect · passive		the Devil			tree rules
4	endanger	past		the safety of Noah and Devil's family		thereby property	tree rules
5	stop up	past	the snake	the leak		with snake's head	vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent leak=Destination with head=Theme
6	form			a mouse			nom form «communication transitive»: of=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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