Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 57

In one of the stories of this class,[156] the father is a hunter who is perishing with cold one night, and who makes the usual promise as the condition of his being allowed to warm himself at a fire guarded by a devil.

Who acts: one, hunter, condition, father · What happens: be, perish, make, allow, warm, guard · To what, where: hunter, usual promise, father, fire

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, hunter, condition, father), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 one	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 hunter	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 stories	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stories	det
5	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 one	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 class	case
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 class	det
8	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stories	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 156	punct
10	[	[	PUNCT	_	11 156	punct
11	156	156	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 one	acl:relcl
12	]	]	PUNCT	_	11 156	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 father	det
14	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hunter	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 hunter	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 hunter	det
17	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 perishing	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 perishing	aux
20	perishing	perish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 hunter	acl:relcl
21	with	with	ADP	_	24 night	case
22	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 night	amod
23	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 night	compound
24	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 perishing	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 makes	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 makes	cc
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 makes	nsubj
28	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 hunter	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 promise	det
30	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 promise	amod
31	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 makes	obj
32	as	as	ADP	_	34 condition	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 condition	det
34	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 promise	nmod
35	of	of	SCONJ	_	38 allowed	mark
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 allowed	nsubj:pass
37	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 allowed	aux:pass
38	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 condition	acl:relcl
39	to	to	PART	_	40 warm	mark
40	warm	warm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 allowed	xcomp
41	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	40 warm	obj
42	at	at	ADP	_	44 fire	case
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 fire	det
44	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 warm	obl
45	guarded	guard	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 fire	acl
46	by	by	ADP	_	48 devil	case
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 devil	det
48	devil	devil	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 guarded	obl:agent
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 hunter	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	one of the stories of this class	a hunter				tree rules
2	perish	present · progressive	a hunter			night		vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	make	present	a hunter	the usual promise			as the condition	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Product
4	allow	gerund · passive	the condition not said here	father				vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
5	warm not said to happen	to-infinitive	father not said here	father	a fire			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
6	guard	participle		a fire not said here				vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: 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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