Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 89

It is to him that at the present day the anxious peasant turns most readily for help, and it is he whom the legends represent as being the most prompt of all the heavenly host to assist the unfortunate among mankind.

Who acts: character, anxious peasant, legends · What happens: be, turn, represent, assist · To what, where: unfortunate

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 (character, anxious peasant, legends), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 him	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 him	cop
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 turns	mark
6	at	at	ADP	_	9 day	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 day	det
8	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 day	amod
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 turns	obl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 peasant	det
11	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 peasant	amod
12	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 turns	nsubj
13	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 him	advcl
14	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	15 readily	advmod
15	readily	readily	ADV	_	17 help	advmod
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 help	case
17	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 turns	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 whom	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 whom	cc
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 whom	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 whom	cop
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 whom	nsubj
23	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 represent	obj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 legends	det
25	legends	legend	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 represent	nsubj
26	represent	represent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 turns	conj
27	as	as	ADP	_	31 prompt	case
28	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 prompt	cop
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 prompt	det
30	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	31 prompt	advmod
31	prompt	prompt	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 represent	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	36 host	case
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	36 host	det:predet
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 host	det
35	heavenly	heavenly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 host	amod
36	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 prompt	nmod
37	to	to	PART	_	38 assist	mark
38	assist	assist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 host	acl
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 unfortunate	det
40	unfortunate	unfortunate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 assist	obj
41	among	among	ADP	_	42 mankind	case
42	mankind	mankind	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 unfortunate	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 him	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	character			to Nicholas	tree rules
2	turn	present	the anxious peasant		day	for help	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	present	character				tree rules
4	represent	present	the legends				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
5	is	gerund				as the prompt; of all heavenly host	tree rules
6	assist	to-infinitive		the unfortunate			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent unfortunate=Beneficiary

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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