Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 136
The diabolical characters in the Russian tales and legends are constantly changing the proportions of their figures, the nature of their attributes.
Who acts: diabolical characters, proportions · What happens: change, figure · To what, where: proportions
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: who acts (diabolical characters, proportions), 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 | 3 characters | det |
| 2 | diabolical | diabolical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 characters | amod |
| 3 | characters | character | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 changing | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 tales | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tales | det |
| 6 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tales | amod |
| 7 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 characters | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 legends | cc |
| 9 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 tales | conj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 changing | aux |
| 11 | constantly | constantly | ADV | _ | 12 changing | advmod |
| 12 | changing | change | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 proportions | det |
| 14 | proportions | proportion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 changing | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 figures | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 figures | nmod:poss |
| 17 | figures | figure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 proportions | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 nature | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 nature | det |
| 20 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 proportions | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 attributes | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 attributes | nmod:poss |
| 23 | attributes | attribute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 nature | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 changing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | present · progressive | the diabolical characters in the Russian tales and legends | the proportions of proportions's figures the nature of proportions's attributes | constantly property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent proportion=Patient | |||
| 2 | figure | proportions = proportion | nom figure «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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