Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 128
From the stories which have already been quoted some idea may be gained of the part which evil spirits play in Russian popular fiction.
Who acts: evil spirits · What happens: quote, gain, play · To what, where: stories, idea, part, Russian popular fiction
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (evil spirits), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 stories | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 stories | det |
| 3 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 quoted | obl |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 quoted | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 quoted | aux |
| 6 | already | already | ADV | _ | 8 quoted | advmod |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 quoted | aux:pass |
| 8 | quoted | quote | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 idea | det |
| 10 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gained | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 gained | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 gained | aux:pass |
| 13 | gained | gain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 quoted | parataxis |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 part | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 part | det |
| 16 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gained | obl |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 play | obj |
| 18 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 spirits | amod |
| 19 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 play | nsubj |
| 20 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 part | acl:relcl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 fiction | case |
| 22 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 fiction | amod |
| 23 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 fiction | amod |
| 24 | fiction | fiction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 play | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 quoted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quote speech: other | present · perfect · passive | the stories | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 2 | gain | may · passive | some idea | of the part | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | play | present | evil spirits | the part | Russian popular fiction | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=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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