Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 79

Among the Scandinavians and especially in Iceland, were they the cause of many fears, though they were not supposed to be impelled by a thirst for blood so much as by other carnal appetites,[414] or by a kind of local malignity.

Who acts: corpses, thirst · What happens: be, not suppose, impel · To what, where: cause, corpses

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 (corpses, thirst), 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	Among	among	ADP	_	3 Scandinavians	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Scandinavians	det
3	Scandinavians	Scandinavian	PROPN	Number=Plur	12 cause	obl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 Iceland	cc
5	especially	especially	ADV	_	7 Iceland	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Iceland	case
7	Iceland	Iceland	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Scandinavians	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Scandinavians	punct
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 cause	cop
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 cause	nsubj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cause	det
12	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 fears	case
14	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 fears	amod
15	fears	fear	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 cause	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 supposed	punct
17	though	though	SCONJ	_	21 supposed	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 supposed	nsubj:pass
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 supposed	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 supposed	advmod
21	supposed	suppose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 cause	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	24 impelled	mark
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 impelled	aux:pass
24	impelled	impel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 supposed	xcomp
25	by	by	ADP	_	27 thirst	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 thirst	det
27	thirst	thirst	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 impelled	obl:agent
28	for	for	ADP	_	29 blood	case
29	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 thirst	nmod
30	so	so	ADV	_	31 much	advmod
31	much	much	ADV	_	21 supposed	advmod
32	as	as	ADP	_	36 appetites	case
33	by	by	ADP	_	36 appetites	case
34	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 appetites	amod
35	carnal	carnal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 appetites	amod
36	appetites	appetite	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 much	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 414	punct
38	[	[	PUNCT	_	39 414	punct
39	414	414	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 cause	appos
40	]	]	PUNCT	_	39 414	punct
41	or	or	CCONJ	_	44 kind	cc
42	by	by	ADP	_	44 kind	case
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 kind	det
44	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cause	conj
45	of	of	ADP	_	47 malignity	case
46	local	local	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 malignity	amod
47	malignity	malignity	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 kind	nmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 cause	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	corpses = corpse	the cause or a kind of local malignity	among the Scandinavians and Iceland; of many fears	tree rules
2	not suppose	past · passive		corpses = corpse		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme
3	impel	to-infinitive · passive	a thirst for blood			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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