Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 155

[290] For an account of the _ovin_, and the respect paid to it or to the demons supposed to haunt it see "The Songs of the Russian People," p. 257.

Who acts: respect · What happens: pay, suppose, haunt, see, account · To what, where: ovin, demons, respect, Songs

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (respect), 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	[	[	PUNCT	_	2 290	punct
2	290	290	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 290	punct
4	For	for	ADP	_	6 account	case
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 account	det
6	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 290	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 ovin	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ovin	det
9	_	_	PUNCT	_	10 ovin	punct
10	ovin	ovin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 account	nmod
11	_	_	PUNCT	_	10 ovin	punct
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 paid	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 paid	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 respect	det
15	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 paid	nsubj
16	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 290	parataxis
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 paid	obl
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 demons	cc
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 demons	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 demons	det
22	demons	demon	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 paid	conj
23	supposed	suppose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 demons	acl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 haunt	mark
25	haunt	haunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 supposed	xcomp
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 haunt	obj
27	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 haunt	xcomp
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 Songs	punct
29	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Songs	det
30	Songs	Song	PROPN	Number=Plur	27 see	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	34 People	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 People	det
33	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 People	amod
34	People	People	PROPN	Number=Plur	30 Songs	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 p.	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 p.	punct
37	p.	P.	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 demons	nmod
38	257	257	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	37 p.	flat
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 290	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	pay	past	the respect		ovin	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	suppose	participle		the demons p. not said here		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	haunt	to-infinitive		respect		tree rules
4	see	infinitive		the Songs of the Russian People		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer song=Stimulus
5	account			the ovin		nom account «communication 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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