Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 124

In some instances the Evil One himself is the father of such a doomed victim, in others a temporarily animated corpse.

Who acts: Evil · What happens: be, doom · To what, where: father, instances

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Evil), 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	_	3 instances	case
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 instances	det
3	instances	instance	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 father	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Evil	det
5	Evil	Evil	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 father	nsubj
6	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 Evil	appos
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	6 One	nmod:unmarked
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 father	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 father	det
10	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	of	of	ADP	_	15 victim	case
12	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	15 victim	det:predet
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 victim	det
14	doomed	doom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 victim	amod
15	victim	victim	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 father	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 others	punct
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 others	case
18	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 father	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 corpse	det
20	temporarily	temporarily	ADV	_	21 animated	advmod
21	animated	animated	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 corpse	amod
22	corpse	corpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 others	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 father	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the Evil	the father and others a animated corpse		some instances		of such doomed victim	tree rules
2	doom	participle							tree rules

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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