Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 191

It is as a vitalized corpse that he comes to trouble mankind, often subject to human appetites, constantly endowed with more than human strength and malignity.

Who acts: dwelling, visitor · What happens: vitalize, be, come, subject, endow · To what, where: human appetites

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dwelling, visitor), 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	6 corpse	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 corpse	cop
3	as	as	ADP	_	6 corpse	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 corpse	det
5	vitalized	vitalize	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 corpse	amod
6	corpse	corpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 comes	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 comes	nsubj
9	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 corpse	advcl
10	to	to	PART	_	12 mankind	mark
11	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mankind	compound
12	mankind	mankind	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 comes	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 subject	punct
14	often	often	ADV	_	15 subject	advmod
15	subject	subject	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 corpse	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 appetites	case
17	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 appetites	amod
18	appetites	appetite	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 subject	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 endowed	punct
20	constantly	constantly	ADV	_	21 endowed	advmod
21	endowed	endow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 appetites	acl
22	with	with	ADP	_	26 strength	case
23	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	26 strength	advmod
24	than	than	ADP	_	23 more	fixed
25	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 strength	amod
26	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 endowed	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 malignity	cc
28	malignity	malignity	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 strength	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 corpse	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	vitalize	participle				tree rules
2	is	present	dwelling		as a vitalized corpse	tree rules
3	come	present	visitor			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	subject	present	dwelling not said here		to human appetites; often property	tree rules
5	endow	participle		human appetites not said here	with human strength and malignity; constantly property	vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with strength=Theme

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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