Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 54

In a White-Russian variant quoted by Afanasief (i. p. 118), the place of the witch's daughter is filled by her son, who had been in the habit of alluring to her den by gifts of toys, and there devouring, the children from the adjacent villages.

Who acts: son, habit · What happens: quote, fill, be, allure, devour, gift · To what, where: Russian variant, habit, children, adjacent villages, toys

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, habit), 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	_	6 variant	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 variant	det
3	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Russian	amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 White	punct
5	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 variant	amod
6	variant	variant	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 filled	obl
7	quoted	quote	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 variant	acl
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 Afanasief	case
9	Afanasief	Afanasief	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 quoted	obl:agent
10	(	(	PUNCT	_	12 p.	punct
11	i.	i.	X	Foreign=Yes	12 p.	flat:foreign
12	p.	P.	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Afanasief	appos
13	118	118	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 p.	flat
14	)	)	PUNCT	_	12 p.	punct
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 place	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 place	det
17	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Afanasief	appos
18	of	of	ADP	_	22 daughter	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 witch	det
20	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 daughter	nmod:poss
21	's	's	PART	_	20 witch	case
22	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 place	nmod
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 filled	aux:pass
24	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
25	by	by	ADP	_	27 son	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 son	nmod:poss
27	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 filled	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 habit	punct
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 habit	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 habit	aux
31	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 habit	cop
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 habit	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 habit	det
34	habit	habit	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 son	appos
35	of	of	SCONJ	_	36 alluring	mark
36	alluring	allure	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 habit	acl
37	to	to	ADP	_	39 den	case
38	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 den	nmod:poss
39	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 alluring	obl
40	by	by	ADP	_	41 gifts	case
41	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 alluring	obl
42	of	of	ADP	_	43 toys	case
43	toys	toy	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 gifts	nmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 devouring	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 devouring	cc
46	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	47 devouring	expl
47	devouring	devour	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 filled	advcl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 children	punct
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 children	det
50	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 devouring	obl
51	from	from	ADP	_	54 villages	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 villages	det
53	adjacent	adjacent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 villages	amod
54	villages	village	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 devouring	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 filled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	quote speech: other	participle		a Russian variant not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fill	present · passive	variant's son		a Russian variant		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	is	past · perfect	variant's son		the habit		tree rules
4	allure	gerund	the habit not said here			to variant's den result; by gifts of toys	vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to den=Result
5	devour	gerund	variant's son not said here	the children	the adjacent villages; there		vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	gift			toys			nom gift «possession transitive»: of=patient

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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