Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 16

But, as a specimen of the class to which such tales as these belong, here is a skazka about one of the wood-sprites or Slavonic Satyrs, who are still believed by the peasants to haunt the forests of Russia.

Who acts: such tales, peasants · What happens: belong, be, believe, haunt · To what, where: skazka, wood sprites, forests

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 (such tales, peasants), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	15 belong	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 specimen	punct
3	as	as	ADP	_	5 specimen	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 specimen	det
5	specimen	specimen	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 belong	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 class	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 class	det
8	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 specimen	nmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 which	case
10	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	12 tales	det
11	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tales	amod
12	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 belong	nsubj
13	as	as	ADP	_	14 these	case
14	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	12 tales	nmod
15	belong	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 skazka	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 belong	punct
17	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 belong	advmod
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 skazka	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 skazka	det
20	skazka	skazka	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
21	about	about	ADP	_	22 one	case
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 skazka	nmod
23	of	of	ADP	_	27 sprites	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 sprites	det
25	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sprites	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 wood	punct
27	sprites	sprite	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 one	nmod
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	30 Satyrs	cc
29	Slavonic	slavonic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 Satyrs	amod
30	Satyrs	Satyr	PROPN	Number=Plur	27 sprites	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 believed	punct
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 believed	nsubj:pass
33	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 believed	aux:pass
34	still	still	ADV	_	35 believed	advmod
35	believed	believe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 sprites	parataxis
36	by	by	ADP	_	38 peasants	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 peasants	det
38	peasants	peasant	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 believed	obl
39	to	to	PART	_	40 haunt	mark
40	haunt	haunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 believed	advcl
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 forests	det
42	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 haunt	obj
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 Russia	case
44	Russia	Russia	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 forests	nmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 skazka	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	belong	present	which such tales as these		here		as a specimen of the class	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present		a skazka			about one of the wood sprites or Slavonic Satyrs	tree rules
3	believe	present · passive	the peasants	the wood sprites or Slavonic Satyrs		still		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus
4	haunt	to-infinitive	the peasants not said here	the forests of Russia				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus forest=Experiencer

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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