Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, sentence 3
One-eyed Likho, a story of the Polyphemus Cycle--Woe, the Poor Man's Companion--Friday, Wednesday, and Sunday personified as Female Spirits--The Leshy or Wood-Demon--Legends about Rivers--Frost as a Wooer of Maidens--The Whirlwind personified as a species of Snake or Demon--Morfei and Oh, two supernatural beings 186
Who acts: Sunday, Whirlwind · What happens: personify · To what, where: eyed Likho
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sunday, Whirlwind), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Likho | punct |
| 3 | eyed | eyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Likho | amod |
| 4 | Likho | Likho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 One | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 story | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 story | det |
| 7 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Likho | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Cycle | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Cycle | det |
| 10 | Polyphemus | Polyphemus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Cycle | compound |
| 11 | Cycle | Cycle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 story | nmod |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 Woe | punct |
| 13 | Woe | Woe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Cycle | flat |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Companion | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Man | det |
| 16 | Poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Man | amod |
| 17 | Man | Man | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Companion | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 Man | case |
| 19 | Companion | Companion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Likho | conj |
| 20 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 Friday | punct |
| 21 | Friday | Friday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Likho | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Wednesday | punct |
| 23 | Wednesday | Wednesday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Friday | appos |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 personified | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 personified | cc |
| 26 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 personified | nsubj |
| 27 | personified | personify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Likho | acl:relcl |
| 28 | as | as | ADP | _ | 30 Spirits | case |
| 29 | Female | female | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 Spirits | amod |
| 30 | Spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 personified | obl |
| 31 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 33 Leshy | punct |
| 32 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Leshy | det |
| 33 | Leshy | Leshy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Spirits | nmod |
| 34 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 35 Wood | cc |
| 35 | Wood | Wood | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Leshy | conj |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 Demon | punct |
| 37 | Demon | Demon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Leshy | conj |
| 38 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 39 Legends | punct |
| 39 | Legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 Leshy | appos |
| 40 | about | about | ADP | _ | 41 Rivers | case |
| 41 | Rivers | Rivers | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Legends | nmod |
| 42 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 43 Frost | punct |
| 43 | Frost | frost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 Legends | conj |
| 44 | as | as | ADP | _ | 46 Wooer | case |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 Wooer | det |
| 46 | Wooer | wooer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 Frost | nmod |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 Maidens | case |
| 48 | Maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 Wooer | nmod |
| 49 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 52 personified | punct |
| 50 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 Whirlwind | det |
| 51 | Whirlwind | Whirlwind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 52 personified | nsubj |
| 52 | personified | personify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 personified | conj |
| 53 | as | as | ADP | _ | 55 species | case |
| 54 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 55 species | det |
| 55 | species | species | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 personified | obl |
| 56 | of | of | ADP | _ | 57 Snake | case |
| 57 | Snake | Snake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 55 species | nmod |
| 58 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 59 Demon | cc |
| 59 | Demon | Demon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 57 Snake | conj |
| 60 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 61 Morfei | punct |
| 61 | Morfei | Morfei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Likho | conj |
| 62 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 67 beings | cc |
| 63 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 67 beings | discourse |
| 64 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 63 Oh | punct |
| 65 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 67 beings | nummod |
| 66 | supernatural | supernatural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 67 beings | amod |
| 67 | beings | being | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 Likho | conj |
| 68 | 186 | 186 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 One | acl:relcl |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | personify | past | Sunday | eyed Likho and the Poor Man's Companion and Friday and Morfei and two supernatural beings not said here | as Female Spirits the Leshy or Wood and Demon | tree rules | |||
| 2 | personify | past | the Whirlwind | as a species of Snake or Demon | 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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