Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8, sentence 62
[27] In West-European stories the devil frequently carries off a witch's soul after death.
Who acts: 27 · What happens: carry off · To what, where: soul
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 (27), 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 27 | punct |
| 2 | 27 | 27 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 carries | nsubj |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 27 | punct |
| 4 | In | in | ADP | _ | 8 stories | case |
| 5 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 stories | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 West | punct |
| 7 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 stories | amod |
| 8 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 27 | nmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 devil | det |
| 10 | devil | devil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 carries | nsubj |
| 11 | frequently | frequently | ADV | _ | 12 carries | advmod |
| 12 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 carries | compound:prt |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 witch | det |
| 15 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 soul | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 witch | case |
| 17 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 carries | obj |
| 18 | after | after | ADP | _ | 19 death | case |
| 19 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 carries | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 carries | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry off | present | 27 in West European stories | a witch's soul | after death | frequently property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Theme |
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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