Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 113
The main difference between the "legend" we are about to quote, and the skazkas which have already been quoted, is that a devil of the Satanic type is substituted in it for the mythical personage--whether Slavonic Neptune or Indian Rakshasa--who played a similar part in them.
Who acts: we, Slavonic · What happens: be, quote, play · To what, where: skazkas, main difference, rise, similar part
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, Slavonic), 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 difference | det |
| 2 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 difference | amod |
| 3 | difference | difference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 substituted | nsubj |
| 4 | between | between | ADP | _ | 7 legend | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 legend | det |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 legend | punct |
| 7 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 difference | nmod |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 legend | punct |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 quote | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 quote | cop |
| 11 | about | about | ADV | _ | 13 quote | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 quote | mark |
| 13 | quote | quote | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 legend | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 skazkas | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 skazkas | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 skazkas | det |
| 17 | skazkas | skazka | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 difference | conj |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 quoted | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 quoted | aux |
| 20 | already | already | ADV | _ | 22 quoted | advmod |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 quoted | aux:pass |
| 22 | quoted | quote | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 skazkas | acl:relcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 difference | punct |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 substituted | cop |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 substituted | mark |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 devil | det |
| 27 | devil | devil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 substituted | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 type | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 type | det |
| 30 | Satanic | Satanic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 type | amod |
| 31 | type | type | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 devil | nmod |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 substituted | aux:pass |
| 33 | substituted | substitute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 it | case |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 substituted | obl |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 personage | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 personage | det |
| 38 | mythical | mythical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 personage | amod |
| 39 | personage | personage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 substituted | obl |
| 40 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 49 played | punct |
| 41 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 49 played | mark |
| 42 | Slavonic | Slavonic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 played | nsubj |
| 43 | Neptune | Neptune | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 Slavonic | flat |
| 44 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 46 Rakshasa | cc |
| 45 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 Rakshasa | amod |
| 46 | Rakshasa | Rakshasa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 Slavonic | conj |
| 47 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 49 played | punct |
| 48 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 49 played | nsubj |
| 49 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 substituted | conj |
| 50 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 52 part | det |
| 51 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 part | amod |
| 52 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 played | obj |
| 53 | in | in | ADP | _ | 54 them | case |
| 54 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 played | obl |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 33 substituted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | we | about, quote property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | quote speech: other | present · perfect · passive | the skazkas | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is | present · passive | the main difference between the legend and the skazkas | rise | for the mythical personage; substitute property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | play | past | Slavonic or Indian Rakshasa | a similar part | in devils = devil | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme |
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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