Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 87
It is thoroughly in accordance with Slavonic ideas about the residence of the dead in their tombs, and their ability to assist their descendants in time of trouble.
Who acts: incident · What happens: be, assist · To what, where: accordance, descendants
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., 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 (incident), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 accordance | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 accordance | cop |
| 3 | thoroughly | thoroughly | ADV | _ | 5 accordance | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 accordance | case |
| 5 | accordance | accordance | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 ideas | case |
| 7 | Slavonic | slavonic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ideas | amod |
| 8 | ideas | idea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 accordance | nmod |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 residence | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 residence | det |
| 11 | residence | residence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ideas | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 dead | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 dead | det |
| 14 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 residence | nmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 tombs | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 tombs | nmod:poss |
| 17 | tombs | tomb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 dead | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 ability | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 ability | cc |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 ability | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ability | ability | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 accordance | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 assist | mark |
| 23 | assist | assist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 ability | acl |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 descendants | nmod:poss |
| 25 | descendants | descendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 assist | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 time | case |
| 27 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 assist | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 trouble | case |
| 29 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 time | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 accordance | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | incident | accordance and tombs's ability | with Slavonic ideas about the residence of the dead; thoroughly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | assist | to-infinitive | incident not said here | tombs's descendants | time | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent descendant=Beneficiary |
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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