Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 64
Demon haunted waters, which prove fatal to mortals who bathe in or drink of them, often occur in oriental fiction.
Who acts: Demon, waters, mortals · What happens: haunt, prove, bathe in, drink, occur · To what, where: waters, oriental fiction
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 (Demon, waters, mortals), 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 | Demon | Demon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 haunted | nsubj |
| 2 | haunted | haunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 haunted | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 prove | punct |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 prove | nsubj |
| 6 | prove | prove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 waters | acl:relcl |
| 7 | fatal | fatal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 prove | xcomp |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 mortals | case |
| 9 | mortals | mortal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 fatal | obl |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 bathe | nsubj |
| 11 | bathe | bathe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 mortals | acl:relcl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 bathe | compound:prt |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 drink | cc |
| 14 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 bathe | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 drink | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 occur | punct |
| 18 | often | often | ADV | _ | 19 occur | advmod |
| 19 | occur | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 drink | advcl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 fiction | case |
| 21 | oriental | oriental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 fiction | amod |
| 22 | fiction | fiction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 occur | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 haunted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | haunt | past | Demon | waters | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus water=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | prove | present | waters | fatal property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | bathe in | present | mortals | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | drink | infinitive | mortals not said here | of mortals = mortal | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of they=Source | ||||
| 5 | occur | present | mortals not said here | oriental fiction | often property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in fiction=Location |
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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