Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7, sentence 1
Sometimes the demon of the _legenda_ bears a close resemblance to the snake of the _skazka_.
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 9 bears | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 demon | det |
| 3 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bears | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 legenda | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 legenda | det |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 legenda | punct |
| 7 | legenda | legenda | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 demon | nmod |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 bears | punct |
| 9 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 resemblance | det |
| 11 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 resemblance | amod |
| 12 | resemblance | resemblance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bears | nmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 snake | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 snake | det |
| 15 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 resemblance | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 skazka | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 skazka | det |
| 18 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 19 skazka | punct |
| 19 | skazka | skazka | X | Foreign=Yes | 15 snake | conj |
| 20 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 19 skazka | punct |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 bears | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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