Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 14

St. Friday and St. Wednesday appear to belong to that class of spiritual beings, sometimes of a demoniacal disposition, with which the imagination of the old Slavonians peopled the elements.

Who acts: Friday, imagination · What happens: appear, belong, people, imagine · To what, where: elements, old Slavonians

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Friday, imagination), 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	St.	St.	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Friday	nmod:desc
2	Friday	Friday	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 appear	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 Wednesday	cc
4	St.	St.	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Wednesday	nmod:desc
5	Wednesday	Wednesday	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Friday	conj
6	appear	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 belong	mark
8	belong	belong	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 appear	xcomp
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 class	case
10	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 class	det
11	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 belong	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 beings	case
13	spiritual	spiritual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 beings	amod
14	beings	being	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 class	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 disposition	punct
16	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	20 disposition	advmod
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 disposition	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 disposition	det
19	demoniacal	demoniacal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 disposition	amod
20	disposition	disposition	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 appear	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 peopled	punct
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 which	case
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 peopled	obl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 imagination	det
25	imagination	imagination	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 peopled	nsubj
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 Slavonians	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Slavonians	det
28	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 Slavonians	amod
29	Slavonians	Slavonian	PROPN	Number=Plur	25 imagination	nmod
30	peopled	people	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 appear	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 elements	det
32	elements	element	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 peopled	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 appear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	appear	present	Friday St. and Wednesday St.		of a demoniacal disposition	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	belong	to-infinitive	Friday St. and Wednesday St. not said here		to that class of spiritual beings	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
3	people	past	the imagination of the old Slavonians	the elements		tree rules
4	imagine			the old Slavonians		nom imagination «cognition 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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