Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 160

In the next story a most detailed account is given of the manner in which a Vampire sets to work, and also of the best means of ridding the world of it.

Who acts: Vampire, best · What happens: give, set, work, mean, rid · To what, where: detailed account, next story, world

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 (Vampire, best), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 story	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 story	det
3	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 story	amod
4	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 given	obl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 account	det
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 detailed	advmod
7	detailed	detailed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 account	amod
8	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 given	nsubj:pass
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 given	aux:pass
10	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 manner	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 manner	det
13	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 given	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 which	case
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 sets	obl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 Vampire	det
17	Vampire	vampire	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sets	nsubj
18	sets	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 given	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 work	mark
20	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 sets	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 means	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 means	cc
23	also	also	ADV	_	27 means	advmod
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 best	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 best	det
26	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	27 means	nsubj
27	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 given	conj
28	of	of	SCONJ	_	29 ridding	mark
29	ridding	rid	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 means	advcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 world	det
31	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 ridding	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 it	case
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 world	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 given	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	present · passive		a detailed account	the next story	of the manner	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	set	present	a Vampire				tree rules
3	work	to-infinitive	a Vampire not said here				vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	mean	present	the best				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
5	rid	gerund	the best not said here	the world of Vampire			vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=Source

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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