Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 7
But the peasantry also describe by _Licho_ an evil spirit, a sort of devil.
What happens: describe, sort · To what, where: peasantry, devil
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: 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 | _ | 5 describe | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 peasantry | det |
| 3 | peasantry | peasantry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 describe | obl |
| 4 | also | also | ADV | _ | 5 describe | advmod |
| 5 | describe | describe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 Licho | case |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 by | punct |
| 8 | Licho | Licho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 describe | obl |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 spirit | punct |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 spirit | det |
| 11 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 spirit | amod |
| 12 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 describe | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sort | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 sort | det |
| 15 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 spirit | appos |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 devil | case |
| 17 | devil | devil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sort | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 describe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | describe | present | the peasantry | by Licho; a evil spirit obl | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | sort | devil | nom sort «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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