Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, sentence 175
A popular tradition asserts that the Devil may be killed if shot with an egg laid on Christmas Eve. See Afanasief, _P.V.S.
Who acts: popular tradition · What happens: assert, kill, lay · To what, where: Devil, egg
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (popular tradition), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 tradition | det |
| 2 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tradition | amod |
| 3 | tradition | tradition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asserts | nsubj |
| 4 | asserts | assert | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 killed | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Devil | det |
| 7 | Devil | Devil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 killed | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 killed | aux:pass |
| 10 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 asserts | ccomp |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 shot | mark |
| 12 | shot | shot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 killed | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 egg | case |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 egg | det |
| 15 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shot | nmod |
| 16 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 egg | acl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 See | case |
| 18 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Eve. | compound |
| 19 | Eve. | Eve. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 See | compound |
| 20 | See | See | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 laid | obl:agent |
| 21 | Afanasief | Afanasief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 See | flat |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 P.V.S | punct |
| 23 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 24 P.V.S | punct |
| 24 | P.V.S | P.V.S | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 shot | appos |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 asserts | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assert | present | a popular tradition | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | kill | may · passive | the Devil | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer shot=Result | |||||
| 3 | lay | participle | a egg not said here | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: 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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