Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8, sentence 78

[34] A phrase often used by the peasants, when frightened by anything of supernatural appearance.

What happens: use, frighten · To what, where: phrase

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 34	punct
2	34	34	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 34	punct
4	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 phrase	det
5	phrase	phrase	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 34	appos
6	often	often	ADV	_	7 used	advmod
7	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 phrase	acl
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 peasants	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 peasants	det
10	peasants	peasant	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 used	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 frightened	punct
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 frightened	advmod
13	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 peasants	acl
14	by	by	ADP	_	15 anything	case
15	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	13 frightened	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 appearance	case
17	supernatural	supernatural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 appearance	amod
18	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 anything	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 34	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	participle		a phrase not said here				by the peasants; often property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	frighten	participle						by anything	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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