Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 87

Their presence in a cottage is considered a good omen by the peasants, who leave out milk for them to drink, and who think that to kill such visitors would be a terrible sin.

Who acts: peasants, names · What happens: consider, leave out, drink, think, kill, be · To what, where: presence, milk, such visitors, terrible sin · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peasants, names), 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	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 presence	nmod:poss
2	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 considered	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 cottage	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cottage	det
5	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 presence	nmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 considered	aux:pass
7	considered	consider	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 omen	det
9	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 omen	amod
10	omen	omen	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 considered	xcomp
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 peasants	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 peasants	det
13	peasants	peasant	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 considered	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 leave	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 leave	nsubj
16	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 peasants	acl:relcl
17	out	out	ADP	_	16 leave	compound:prt
18	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 leave	obj
19	for	for	SCONJ	_	22 drink	mark
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 drink	nsubj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 drink	mark
22	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 leave	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 think	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 think	cc
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 think	nsubj
26	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 considered	conj
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 kill	mark
28	to	to	PART	_	29 kill	mark
29	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 think	ccomp
30	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 visitors	amod
31	visitors	visitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 kill	obj
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 sin	aux
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 sin	cop
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 sin	det
35	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 sin	amod
36	sin	sin	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 visitors	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 considered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	consider	present · passive	the peasants	names's presence in a cottage	vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent subject=Attribute
2	leave out	present	the peasants	milk	vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Theme
3	drink	to-infinitive	names = name		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	think speech: other	present			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	kill	to-infinitive		such visitors	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visitor=Theme
6	is a	would		a terrible sin	tree rules

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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