Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8, sentence 119
In the original Indian story the demon is one which had formerly lived in a Brahman's house, but had been frightened away by his cantankerous wife.
Who acts: demon, one, cantankerous wife · What happens: be, live, frighten away · To what, where: one, original Indian story, house
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: who acts (demon, one, cantankerous wife), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 story | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 story | det |
| 3 | original | original | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 story | amod |
| 4 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 story | amod |
| 5 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 one | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 demon | det |
| 7 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 one | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 one | cop |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 lived | nsubj |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 lived | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 lived | aux |
| 12 | formerly | formerly | ADV | _ | 13 lived | advmod |
| 13 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 house | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 Brahman | det |
| 16 | Brahman | Brahman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 house | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 Brahman | case |
| 18 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lived | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 frightened | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 frightened | cc |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 frightened | aux |
| 22 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 frightened | aux:pass |
| 23 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 lived | conj |
| 24 | away | away | ADV | _ | 23 frightened | advmod |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 wife | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 wife | nmod:poss |
| 27 | cantankerous | cantankerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 wife | amod |
| 28 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 frightened | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the demon | one | the original Indian story | tree rules | |||
| 2 | live | past · perfect | one | a Brahman's house | formerly property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location | |||
| 3 | frighten away | past · perfect · passive | Demon's cantankerous wife | away property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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