Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 5, sentence 94

[422] Compare with this belief the Scotch superstition mentioned by Pennant, that if a dog or cat pass over a corpse the animal must be killed at once.

Who acts: 422, dog · What happens: compare, mention, pass, kill · To what, where: Scotch superstition, corpse, animal

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 (422, dog), 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	_	4 Compare	punct
2	422	422	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 Compare	nsubj
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 422	punct
4	Compare	compare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 belief	case
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 belief	det
7	belief	belief	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Compare	obl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 superstition	det
9	Scotch	Scotch	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 superstition	compound
10	superstition	superstition	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Compare	obj
11	mentioned	mention	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 superstition	acl
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 Pennant	case
13	Pennant	Pennant	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 mentioned	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 pass	punct
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 pass	mark
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 dog	mark
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 dog	det
18	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 pass	nsubj
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 cat	cc
20	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 dog	conj
21	pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 Compare	parataxis
22	over	over	ADP	_	24 corpse	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 corpse	det
24	corpse	corpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 pass	obl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 animal	det
26	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 killed	nsubj:pass
27	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 killed	aux
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 killed	aux:pass
29	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 pass	conj
30	at	at	ADP	_	31 once	case
31	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	29 killed	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 Compare	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	compare	infinitive	422	the Scotch superstition		with this belief	vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent superstition=Patient with belief=Co-Patient
2	mention speech: other	participle		the Scotch superstition not said here		by Pennant	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	pass	present	a dog or cat		a corpse		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over corpse=Location
4	kill	must · passive		the animal			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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