Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 146
So savage was it, and so persistent, that it was as much as the people of the house could do to beat it off.
Who acts: savage, people · What happens: be, do, beat off · To what, where: savage
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (savage, people), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 8 persistent | advmod |
| 2 | savage | savage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 persistent | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 it | cop |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 savage | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 persistent | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 persistent | cc |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 persistent | advmod |
| 8 | persistent | persistent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 much | punct |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 much | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 much | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 much | cop |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | _ | 14 much | advmod |
| 14 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 persistent | conj |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 do | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 people | det |
| 17 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 do | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 house | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 house | det |
| 20 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 people | nmod |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 do | aux |
| 22 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 much | acl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 beat | mark |
| 24 | beat | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 do | advcl |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 beat | obj |
| 26 | off | off | ADP | _ | 24 beat | compound:prt |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 persistent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | savage | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | past | savage | much property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | could | the people of the house | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | beat off | to-infinitive | the people of the house not said here | savage | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=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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