Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 58
Into such bodies, it is held, demons enter, and the combination of fiend and corpse goes forth as the terrible Vampire thirsting for blood.
Who acts: demons, combination, terrible Vampire · What happens: hold, enter, go, thirst · To what, where: congregation, such bodies
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 (demons, combination, terrible Vampire), 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 | Into | into | ADP | _ | 3 bodies | case |
| 2 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bodies | amod |
| 3 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 held | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 bodies | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 held | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 held | aux:pass |
| 7 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 enter | punct |
| 9 | demons | demon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 enter | nsubj |
| 10 | enter | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 held | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 goes | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 goes | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 combination | det |
| 14 | combination | combination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 goes | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 fiend | case |
| 16 | fiend | fiend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 combination | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 corpse | cc |
| 18 | corpse | corpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fiend | conj |
| 19 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 held | advcl |
| 20 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 19 goes | advmod |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 Vampire | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Vampire | det |
| 23 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Vampire | amod |
| 24 | Vampire | vampire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 goes | obl |
| 25 | thirsting | thirst | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 Vampire | acl |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 blood | case |
| 27 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 thirsting | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | present · passive | congregation | such bodies | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | enter | present | demons | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go | present | the combination of fiend and corpse | as the terrible Vampire; forth property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | thirst | gerund | the terrible Vampire not said here | for blood | vn long-32.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for blood=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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