Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 77

They are often exacted as the penalty of losing a wager, as well in the Skazkas as elsewhere.

Who acts: penalty · What happens: exact, lose · To what, where: respects, Skazkas, wager

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (penalty), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 exacted	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 exacted	aux:pass
3	often	often	ADV	_	4 exacted	advmod
4	exacted	exact	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	as	as	ADP	_	7 penalty	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 penalty	det
7	penalty	penalty	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 exacted	obl
8	of	of	SCONJ	_	9 losing	mark
9	losing	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 penalty	acl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 wager	det
11	wager	wager	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 losing	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Skazkas	punct
13	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	17 Skazkas	cc
14	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 as	fixed
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 Skazkas	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Skazkas	det
17	Skazkas	Skazkas	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 exacted	obl
18	as	as	ADP	_	19 elsewhere	case
19	elsewhere	elsewhere	ADV	_	17 Skazkas	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 exacted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exact	present · passive		respects		the Skazkas		as the penalty; often property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	lose	gerund	the penalty not said here	a wager					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wager=Eventuality

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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