Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 101

In the guise of indigent wayfarers, the sacred visitors enter into farm-houses and cottages and ask for food and lodging; therefore to this day the Russian peasant is ever unwilling to refuse hospitality to any man, fearing lest he might repulse angels unawares.

Who acts: sacred visitors, Russian peasant, peasant · What happens: enter, ask, unwill, refuse, fear, repulse · To what, where: guise, hospitality, angels unawares · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sacred visitors, Russian peasant, peasant), 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 guise	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 guise	det
3	guise	guise	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 enter	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 wayfarers	case
5	indigent	indigent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wayfarers	amod
6	wayfarers	wayfarer	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 guise	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 guise	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 visitors	det
9	sacred	sacred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 visitors	amod
10	visitors	visitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 enter	nsubj
11	enter	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	into	into	ADP	_	15 houses	case
13	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 houses	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 farm	punct
15	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 enter	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 cottages	cc
17	cottages	cottage	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 houses	conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 ask	cc
19	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 enter	conj
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 food	case
21	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 ask	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 lodging	cc
23	lodging	lodging	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 food	conj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 unwilling	punct
25	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	28 day	advmod
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 day	case
27	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 day	det
28	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 unwilling	obl:unmarked
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 peasant	det
30	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 peasant	amod
31	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 unwilling	nsubj
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 unwilling	aux
33	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	34 unwilling	advmod
34	unwilling	unwill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 enter	advcl
35	to	to	PART	_	36 refuse	mark
36	refuse	refuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 unwilling	xcomp
37	hospitality	hospitality	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 refuse	obj
38	to	to	ADP	_	40 man	case
39	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	40 man	det
40	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 refuse	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 fearing	punct
42	fearing	fear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 unwilling	advcl
43	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	46 repulse	mark
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 repulse	nsubj
45	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 repulse	aux
46	repulse	repulse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 fearing	ccomp
47	angels	angel	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 unawares	compound
48	unawares	unaware	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 repulse	obj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 enter	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	enter	present	the sacred visitors		the guise of indigent wayfarers		into farm houses and cottages	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into house=Initial_Location
2	ask speech: ask	infinitive	the sacred visitors not said here				for food and lodging	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	unwill	present · progressive	the Russian peasant			ever; day		tree rules
4	refuse	to-infinitive	the Russian peasant not said here	hospitality			to any man	vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hospitality=Theme
5	fear	gerund	the Russian peasant not said here					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	repulse	might	peasant	angels unawares				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus unaware=Experiencer

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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