Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 160

2 and 15) in which a devil obtains a like promise from a woodcutter and a fisherman--the Modern Greek (Hahn, Nos.

Who acts: devil · What happens: obtain · To what, where: like promise, woodcutter

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (devil), 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	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 15	cc
3	15	15	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 2	nmod
4	)	)	PUNCT	_	3 15	punct
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 obtains	obl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 devil	det
8	devil	devil	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 obtains	nsubj
9	obtains	obtain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 2	parataxis
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 promise	det
11	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 promise	amod
12	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 obtains	obj
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 woodcutter	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 woodcutter	det
15	woodcutter	woodcutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 promise	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 fisherman	cc
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 fisherman	det
18	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 woodcutter	conj
19	--	--	PUNCT	_	22 Greek	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Greek	det
21	Modern	modern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Greek	amod
22	Greek	Greek	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 promise	nmod
23	(	(	PUNCT	_	24 Hahn	punct
24	Hahn	Hahn	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Greek	flat
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Nos	punct
26	Nos	Nos	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Hahn	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 2	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	obtain	present	a devil	a like promise the Modern Greek		a woodcutter and a fisherman			vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent promise=Theme from woodcutter=Source

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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