Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 5, sentence 73

[415] As in the case of Glam, the terrible spectre which Grettir had so much difficulty in overcoming.

Who acts: Grettir, much difficulty · What happens: have, overcome · To what, where: terrible spectre

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Grettir, much difficulty), 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	[	[	PUNCT	_	2 415	punct
2	415	415	NUM	ExtPos=PROPN NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 415	punct
4	As	as	ADP	_	7 case	case
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 case	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 case	det
7	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 415	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Glam	case
9	Glam	Glam	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 case	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 spectre	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 spectre	det
12	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 spectre	amod
13	spectre	spectre	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Glam	appos
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 had	obj
15	Grettir	Grettir	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 spectre	acl:relcl
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 much	advmod
18	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 difficulty	amod
19	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 had	obj
20	in	in	SCONJ	_	21 overcoming	mark
21	overcoming	overcome	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 difficulty	acl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 415	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Grettir	the terrible spectre					tree rules
2	overcome	gerund	much difficulty not said here						vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot

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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