Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 75
The leading characters undergo certain transmutations as the scene of the story is shifted, but their mutual relations remain constant.
Who acts: leading characters, mutual relations · What happens: lead, undergo, shift, remain · To what, where: certain transmutations, scene
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (leading characters, mutual relations), 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 | leading | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 characters | amod |
| 3 | characters | character | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 undergo | nsubj |
| 4 | undergo | undergo | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 transmutations | amod |
| 6 | transmutations | transmutation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 undergo | obj |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 shifted | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 scene | det |
| 9 | scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shifted | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 story | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 story | det |
| 12 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 scene | nmod |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 shifted | aux:pass |
| 14 | shifted | shift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 undergo | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 remain | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 remain | cc |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 relations | nmod:poss |
| 18 | mutual | mutual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 relations | amod |
| 19 | relations | relation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 remain | nsubj |
| 20 | remain | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 undergo | conj |
| 21 | constant | constant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 remain | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 undergo | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | gerund | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | ||||||
| 2 | undergo | infinitive | the leading characters | certain transmutations | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | shift | present · passive | the scene of the story | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | remain | present | characters's mutual relations | constant property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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