Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 82

The vampire is actuated by a thirst which can be quenched only by blood, and which impels it to go forth from the grave and destroy.

Who acts: thirst · What happens: actuate, quench, impel, go, destroy · To what, where: vampire, thirst, blood, grave

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., 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 (thirst), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 vampire	det
2	vampire	vampire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 actuated	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 actuated	aux:pass
4	actuated	actuate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 thirst	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 thirst	det
7	thirst	thirst	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 actuated	obl:agent
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 quenched	nsubj:pass
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 quenched	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 quenched	aux:pass
11	quenched	quench	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 thirst	acl:relcl
12	only	only	ADV	_	14 blood	advmod
13	by	by	ADP	_	14 blood	case
14	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 quenched	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 impels	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 impels	cc
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 impels	nsubj
18	impels	impel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 actuated	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 impels	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 go	mark
21	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 impels	xcomp
22	forth	forth	ADV	_	21 go	advmod
23	from	from	ADP	_	25 grave	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 grave	det
25	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 go	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 destroy	cc
27	destroy	destroy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 go	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 actuated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	actuate	present · passive	a thirst	the vampire			vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient
2	quench	can · passive		a thirst			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer blood=Result
3	impel	present		blood			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent it=Patient clause=Result
4	go	to-infinitive			the grave	forth property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from grave=Initial_Location
5	destroy	infinitive					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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