Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 128

This idea accounts for the otherwise unexplained fact that the heroes of folk-tales are frequently warned that they must on no account be tempted into striking their magic foes more than one stroke.

Who acts: idea accounts · What happens: be, tempt, strike · To what, where: tales, account, magic foes · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (idea accounts), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 accounts	det
2	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 accounts	compound
3	accounts	account	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 warned	nsubj
4	for	for	ADP	_	8 fact	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fact	det
6	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	7 unexplained	advmod
7	unexplained	unexplained	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fact	amod
8	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 accounts	nmod
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 heroes	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 heroes	det
11	heroes	hero	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fact	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 tales	case
13	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tales	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 folk	punct
15	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 heroes	nmod
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 warned	cop
17	frequently	frequently	ADV	_	18 warned	advmod
18	warned	warn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 tempted	mark
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 tempted	nsubj:pass
21	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 tempted	aux
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 account	case
23	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	24 account	det
24	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 tempted	obl
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 tempted	aux:pass
26	tempted	tempt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 warned	ccomp
27	into	into	SCONJ	_	28 striking	mark
28	striking	strike	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 tempted	advcl
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 foes	nmod:poss
30	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 foes	compound
31	foes	foe	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 striking	obj
32	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	34 one	advmod
33	than	than	ADP	_	32 more	fixed
34	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 stroke	nummod
35	stroke	stroke	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 striking	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 warned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be speech: warn	present	this idea accounts for the unexplained fact the heroes of folk tales			frequently, warn property	tree rules
2	tempt	must · passive		tales = tale	no account		vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient
3	strike	gerund		tales's magic foes			vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent foe=Patient stroke=Result

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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