Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 91

Such monsters as these are, throughout their lives, a terror to the district they inhabit; nor does their evil influence die with them, for after they have been laid in the earth, they assume their direst aspect, and as Vampires bent on blood, night after night, they go forth from their graves to destroy.

Who acts: monsters, Such monsters · What happens: be, inhabit, die, lay, assume, bend · To what, where: Such monsters, district, monsters, earth, direst aspect, Vampires

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monsters, Such monsters), 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	Such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 monsters	amod
2	monsters	monster	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 die	nsubj
3	as	as	ADP	_	4 these	case
4	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 monsters	nmod
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 monsters	cop
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 lives	punct
7	throughout	throughout	ADP	_	9 lives	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 lives	nmod:poss
9	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 monsters	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 terror	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 terror	det
12	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 monsters	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 district	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 district	det
15	district	district	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 terror	nmod
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 inhabit	nsubj
17	inhabit	inhabit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 district	acl:relcl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 die	punct
19	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	24 die	cc
20	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 die	aux
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 influence	nmod:poss
22	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 influence	amod
23	influence	influence	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 die	nsubj
24	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 them	case
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 die	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 laid	punct
28	for	for	SCONJ	_	33 laid	mark
29	after	after	SCONJ	_	33 laid	mark
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 laid	nsubj
31	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 laid	aux
32	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 laid	aux:pass
33	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 die	conj
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 earth	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 earth	det
36	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 laid	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 assume	punct
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 assume	nsubj
39	assume	assume	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 die	conj
40	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 aspect	nmod:poss
41	direst	dire	ADJ	Degree=Sup	42 aspect	amod
42	aspect	aspect	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 assume	obj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 go	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 go	cc
45	as	as	ADP	_	46 Vampires	case
46	Vampires	vampire	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 go	obl
47	bent	bend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 Vampires	acl
48	on	on	ADP	_	49 blood	case
49	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 bent	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 night	punct
51	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 blood	conj
52	after	after	ADP	_	53 night	case
53	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 bent	obl
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 Vampires	punct
55	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 go	nsubj
56	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 assume	conj
57	forth	forth	ADV	_	56 go	advmod
58	from	from	ADP	_	60 graves	case
59	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	60 graves	nmod:poss
60	graves	grave	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 go	obl
61	to	to	PART	_	62 destroy	mark
62	destroy	destroy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	60 graves	acl
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 die	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		Such monsters and monsters's lives and a terror to the district			as these	tree rules
2	inhabit	present	monsters = monster	the district not said here				tree rules
3	die	present · do-support	Such monsters and monsters's lives and a terror to the district				with lives = life	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	lay	present · perfect · passive		monsters = monster	the earth			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in earth=Destination
5	assume	present	monsters = monster	monsters's direst aspect				vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aspect=Theme
6	bend	participle		Vampires not said here	blood and night	night		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on blood=Location
7	go	present	monsters = monster		monsters's graves		as Vampires; forth property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from grave=Initial_Location
8	destroy	to-infinitive	monsters = monster not said here					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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