Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 77
The Russian stories in which devils are tricked by mortals closely resemble, for the most part, those which are current in so many parts of Europe.
Who acts: mortals, those · What happens: trick, resemble, be · To what, where: Russian stories, many parts
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 (mortals, those), 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 stories | det |
| 2 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stories | amod |
| 3 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 tricked | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 devils | case |
| 5 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 6 devils | det |
| 6 | devils | devil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stories | nmod |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 tricked | aux:pass |
| 8 | tricked | trick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 mortals | case |
| 10 | mortals | mortal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 tricked | obl |
| 11 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 12 resemble | advmod |
| 12 | resemble | resemble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 mortals | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 part | punct |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 part | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 part | det |
| 16 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 part | amod |
| 17 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tricked | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 current | punct |
| 19 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 22 current | nsubj |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 those | nmod |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 current | cop |
| 22 | current | current | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 part | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 parts | case |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 many | advmod |
| 25 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 parts | amod |
| 26 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 current | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Europe | case |
| 28 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 parts | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 tricked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trick | present · passive | mortals | the Russian stories in which devils | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | resemble | present | mortals not said here | closely property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | those | many parts of Europe | current property | 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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