Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 81

Only the lake was guarded by a terrible monster, which daily devoured a maiden, whom the inhabitants of Troyan were obliged to give to it in return for leave to make use of the lake.

Who acts: terrible monster · What happens: guard, devour, oblige, give, make, use · To what, where: lake, inhabitants, return, use

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (terrible monster), 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	Only	only	ADV	_	5 guarded	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lake	det
3	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 guarded	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 guarded	aux:pass
5	guarded	guard	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	9 monster	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 monster	det
8	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 monster	amod
9	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 guarded	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 devoured	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 devoured	nsubj
12	daily	daily	ADV	_	13 devoured	advmod
13	devoured	devour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 monster	acl:relcl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 devoured	flat:foreign
15	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 a	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 obliged	punct
17	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 obliged	obl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 inhabitants	det
19	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 obliged	nsubj:pass
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 Troyan	case
21	Troyan	Troyan	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 inhabitants	nmod
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 obliged	aux:pass
23	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 maiden	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 give	mark
25	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 obliged	xcomp
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 it	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 give	obl
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 return	case
29	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 give	obl
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 leave	case
31	leave	leave	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 return	nmod
32	to	to	PART	_	33 make	mark
33	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 give	advcl
34	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 make	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 lake	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 lake	det
37	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 use	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 guarded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	guard	past · passive	a terrible monster	the lake				vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary
2	devour	past	a terrible monster				daily property	vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	oblige	past · passive		the inhabitants of Troyan				vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
4	give	to-infinitive			lake	return for leave		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to it=Recipient
5	make	to-infinitive		use of the lake				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset use=Product
6	use			the lake				nom use «act transitive»: of=patient

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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