Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8, sentence 118
[54] This story is known to the Finns, but with them the Russian Demon, (_chortenok_ = a little _chort_ or devil), has become the Plague.
What happens: know, become · To what, where: story
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8. 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 54 | punct |
| 2 | 54 | 54 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 known | obl |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 54 | punct |
| 4 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 story | det |
| 5 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 known | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 known | aux:pass |
| 7 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Finns | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Finns | det |
| 10 | Finns | finn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 known | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Demon | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 Demon | cc |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 Demon | nmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Demon | det |
| 16 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Demon | amod |
| 17 | Demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 known | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 chortenok | punct |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 21 chortenok | punct |
| 20 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 21 chortenok | punct |
| 21 | chortenok | chortenok | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Demon | appos |
| 22 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 21 chortenok | punct |
| 23 | = | = | SYM | _ | 26 _ | punct |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 little | det |
| 25 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 _ | advmod |
| 26 | _ | _ | X | _ | 17 Demon | appos |
| 27 | chort | chort | X | _ | 26 _ | goeswith |
| 28 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 26 _ | punct |
| 29 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 30 devil | cc |
| 30 | devil | devil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 _ | conj |
| 31 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 26 _ | punct |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 become | punct |
| 33 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 become | aux |
| 34 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 known | conj |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Plague | det |
| 36 | Plague | Plague | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 become | xcomp |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present · passive | this story | to the Finns; 54 obl; the Russian Demon with Finns obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | become | present · perfect | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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