Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 83

But the enchanted corpses which rise at midnight, and attempt to rend their watchers, appear to owe their ferocity to demoniacal possession.

Who acts: enchanted corpses · What happens: enchant, rise, attempt, rend, appear, owe · To what, where: watchers, ferocity, demoniacal possession

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 (enchanted corpses), 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	_	6 rise	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 corpses	det
3	enchanted	enchant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 corpses	amod
4	corpses	corpse	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 rise	nsubj
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 corpses	nmod
6	rise	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 midnight	case
8	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rise	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 attempt	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 attempt	cc
11	attempt	attempt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 rise	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 rend	mark
13	rend	rend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 attempt	xcomp
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 watchers	nmod:poss
15	watchers	watcher	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 rend	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 appear	punct
17	appear	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 attempt	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 owe	mark
19	owe	owe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 appear	xcomp
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 ferocity	nmod:poss
21	ferocity	ferocity	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 owe	obj
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 possession	case
23	demoniacal	demoniacal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 possession	amod
24	possession	possession	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 owe	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 rise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	enchant	participle					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	rise	present	the enchanted corpses		midnight		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	attempt	infinitive	the enchanted corpses not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	rend not said to happen	to-infinitive	the enchanted corpses not said here	corpses's watchers			vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent watcher=Patient
5	appear	present	the enchanted corpses not said here				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
6	owe	to-infinitive	the enchanted corpses not said here	corpses's ferocity		to demoniacal possession goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent ferocity=Theme to possession=Goal

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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