Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 22

But instead of asking aid from the Lord, they applied to the Devil, who taught them how to make an _izba_ or ordinary Russian cottage.

Who acts: stories, Devil · What happens: ask, apply, teach, make · To what, where: aid, stories, _ izba

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 (stories, Devil), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	11 applied	cc
2	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	4 asking	mark
3	of	of	ADP	_	2 instead	fixed
4	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 applied	advcl
5	aid	aid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asking	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 Lord	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Lord	det
8	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 aid	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 asking	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 applied	nsubj
11	applied	apply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 Devil	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Devil	det
14	Devil	Devil	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 applied	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 taught	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 taught	nsubj
17	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 Devil	acl:relcl
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 taught	obj
19	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	21 make	advmod
20	to	to	PART	_	21 make	mark
21	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 taught	xcomp
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 izba	det
23	_	_	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 izba	amod
24	izba	izba	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 make	obj
25	_	_	PUNCT	_	21 make	punct
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 cottage	cc
27	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 cottage	amod
28	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 cottage	amod
29	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 _	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 applied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	gerund	stories = story not said here	aid		from the Lord	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent aid=Recipient
2	apply	past	stories = story			to the Devil	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	teach speech: other	past	the Devil		stories = story		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
4	make	to-infinitive	the Devil not said here	a _ izba			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset izba=Product

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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