Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 135
Of very heterogeneous elements must have been composed the form under which the popular fancy, in Russia as well as in other lands, has embodied the abstract idea of evil.
What happens: compose, embody · To what, where: form, popular fancy
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 4 elements | case |
| 2 | very | very | ADV | _ | 3 heterogeneous | advmod |
| 3 | heterogeneous | heterogeneous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 elements | amod |
| 4 | elements | element | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 composed | obl |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 composed | aux |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 composed | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 composed | aux:pass |
| 8 | composed | compose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 form | det |
| 10 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 composed | obj |
| 11 | under | under | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 embodied | obl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fancy | det |
| 14 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 fancy | amod |
| 15 | fancy | fancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 embodied | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Russia | punct |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 Russia | case |
| 18 | Russia | Russia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 fancy | appos |
| 19 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 24 lands | cc |
| 20 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 as | fixed |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 as | fixed |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 lands | case |
| 23 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 lands | amod |
| 24 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 fancy | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fancy | punct |
| 26 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 embodied | aux |
| 27 | embodied | embody | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 form | acl:relcl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 idea | det |
| 29 | abstract | abstract | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 idea | amod |
| 30 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 embodied | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 evil | case |
| 32 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 idea | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 composed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compose | must · perfect · passive | the form | of heterogeneous elements | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: form=Result | ||||
| 2 | embody | present · perfect · passive | the popular fancy as other lands | the form | tree rules |
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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