Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 131

In the _Awful Drunkard_ (No. 6), and the _Fiddler in Hell_ (No. 41), the abode of evil spirits is portrayed, and some light is thrown on their manners and customs; and in the _Smith and the Demon_ (No. 13), the portrait of one of their number is drawn in no unkindly spirit.

Who acts: _ Smith · What happens: portray, throw, draw · To what, where: Fiddler, Awful Drunkard, light, manners, number, unkindly spirit

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 (_ Smith), 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	_	5 Drunkard	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Drunkard	det
3	_	_	PUNCT	_	5 Drunkard	punct
4	Awful	awful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Drunkard	amod
5	Drunkard	Drunkard	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 portrayed	obl
6	_	_	PUNCT	_	5 Drunkard	punct
7	(	(	PUNCT	_	8 No.	punct
8	No.	no.	NOUN	Abbr=Yes Number=Sing	5 Drunkard	appos
9	6	6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 No.	flat
10	)	)	PUNCT	_	8 No.	punct
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 portrayed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 portrayed	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Fiddler	det
14	_	_	PUNCT	_	15 Fiddler	punct
15	Fiddler	fiddler	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 portrayed	nsubj:pass
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 Hell	case
17	Hell	Hell	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Fiddler	nmod
18	_	_	PUNCT	_	17 Hell	punct
19	(	(	PUNCT	_	20 No.	punct
20	No.	no.	NOUN	Abbr=Yes Number=Sing	17 Hell	appos
21	41	41	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	20 No.	flat
22	)	)	PUNCT	_	20 No.	punct
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 abode	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 abode	det
25	abode	abode	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Fiddler	conj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 spirits	case
27	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 spirits	amod
28	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 abode	nmod
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 portrayed	aux:pass
30	portrayed	portray	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 thrown	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 thrown	cc
33	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	34 light	det
34	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 thrown	nsubj:pass
35	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 thrown	aux:pass
36	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 portrayed	conj
37	on	on	ADP	_	39 manners	case
38	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 manners	nmod:poss
39	manners	manners	NOUN	Number=Ptan	36 thrown	obl
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 customs	cc
41	customs	custom	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 manners	conj
42	;	;	PUNCT	_	47 Smith	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 Smith	cc
44	in	in	ADP	_	47 Smith	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 Smith	det
46	_	_	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 Smith	compound
47	Smith	Smith	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 portrayed	obl:agent
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 Demon	cc
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 Demon	det
50	Demon	Demon	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 Smith	conj
51	_	_	PUNCT	_	50 Demon	punct
52	(	(	PUNCT	_	53 No.	punct
53	No.	no.	NOUN	Abbr=Yes Number=Sing	50 Demon	appos
54	13	13	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	53 No.	flat
55	)	)	PUNCT	_	53 No.	punct
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 portrait	punct
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 portrait	det
58	portrait	portrait	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 Smith	appos
59	of	of	ADP	_	60 one	case
60	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	58 portrait	nmod
61	of	of	SCONJ	_	65 drawn	mark
62	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	63 number	nmod:poss
63	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 drawn	nsubj
64	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	65 drawn	aux:pass
65	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	58 portrait	acl
66	in	in	ADP	_	69 spirit	case
67	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	69 spirit	det
68	unkindly	unkindly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	69 spirit	amod
69	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 drawn	obl
70	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 portrayed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	portray	present · passive	the _ Smith and the Demon	the Fiddler in Hell and the abode of evil spirits	the Awful Drunkard	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	throw	present · passive		some light	spirits's manners and customs	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme on manners=Destination
3	draw	present · passive		spirits's number	no unkindly spirit	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in spirit=Destination

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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