Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8, sentence 53
The Holy Water which destroys the Fiend is merely a Christian form of the "Water of Death," viewed in its negative aspect.
Who acts: Holy Water · What happens: destroy, be, view · To what, where: Fiend, Christian form, negative aspect
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 (Holy Water), 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 Water | det |
| 2 | Holy | Holy | PROPN | _ | 3 Water | compound |
| 3 | Water | Water | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 form | nsubj |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 destroys | nsubj |
| 5 | destroys | destroy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 Water | acl:relcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Fiend | det |
| 7 | Fiend | fiend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 destroys | obj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 form | cop |
| 9 | merely | merely | ADV | _ | 12 form | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 form | det |
| 11 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 form | amod |
| 12 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Water | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Water | det |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Water | punct |
| 16 | Water | Water | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 form | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Death | case |
| 18 | Death | Death | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Water | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 viewed | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 viewed | punct |
| 21 | viewed | view | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 form | parataxis |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 aspect | case |
| 23 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 aspect | nmod:poss |
| 24 | negative | negative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 aspect | amod |
| 25 | aspect | aspect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 viewed | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 form | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | destroy | present | the Holy Water | the Fiend | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fiend=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the Holy Water | a Christian form | of the Water of Death; merely property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | view | participle | Water's negative aspect | vn characterize-29.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
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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