Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 132

The difference which exists between the sketches of fiends contained in these stories is clearly marked, so much so that it would of itself be sufficient to prove that there is no slight confusion of ideas in the minds of the Russian peasants with regard to the demoniacal beings whom they generally call _chorti_ or devils.

Who acts: difference, slight confusion, confusion · What happens: exist, contain, mark, be, prove, call · To what, where: sketches, fiends, stories, difference, demoniacal beings, ideas · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (difference, slight confusion, confusion), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 difference	det
2	difference	difference	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 marked	nsubj:pass
3	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 exists	nsubj
4	exists	exist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 difference	acl:relcl
5	between	between	ADP	_	7 sketches	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sketches	det
7	sketches	sketch	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 exists	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 fiends	case
9	fiends	fiend	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sketches	nmod
10	contained	contain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 fiends	acl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 stories	case
12	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	13 stories	det
13	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 contained	obl
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 marked	aux:pass
15	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	16 marked	advmod
16	marked	mark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 sufficient	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 much	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 much	advmod
19	much	much	ADV	_	16 marked	advmod
20	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	23 would	mark
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 so	fixed
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 would	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 sufficient	aux
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 itself	case
25	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 would	obl
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 sufficient	cop
27	sufficient	sufficient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
28	to	to	PART	_	29 prove	mark
29	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 sufficient	advcl
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 is	mark
31	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	32 is	expl
32	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 prove	ccomp
33	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	35 confusion	det
34	slight	slight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 confusion	amod
35	confusion	confusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 is	nsubj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 ideas	case
37	ideas	idea	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 confusion	nmod
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 minds	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 minds	det
40	minds	mind	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 ideas	nmod
41	of	of	ADP	_	44 peasants	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 peasants	det
43	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 peasants	amod
44	peasants	peasant	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 minds	nmod
45	with	with	ADP	_	46 regard	case
46	regard	regard	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 peasants	nmod
47	to	to	ADP	_	50 beings	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 beings	det
49	demoniacal	demoniacal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 beings	amod
50	beings	being	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 regard	nmod
51	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	54 call	obj
52	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 call	nsubj
53	generally	generally	ADV	_	54 call	advmod
54	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 beings	acl:relcl
55	_	_	PUNCT	_	56 chorti	punct
56	chorti	chorti	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 confusion	conj
57	_	_	PUNCT	_	56 chorti	punct
58	or	or	CCONJ	_	59 devils	cc
59	devils	devil	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 chorti	conj
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 sufficient	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	exist	present	the difference			the sketches of fiends		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between sketch=Location
2	contain	participle		fiends not said here		this stories		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in story=Location
3	mark	present · passive		the difference			clearly property	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination
4	is	would					sufficient property	tree rules
5	prove	to-infinitive						vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	does	present	no slight confusion of ideas in the minds of the Russian peasants with regard to the demoniacal beings and chorti or devils			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	call	present	confusion		the demoniacal beings		generally property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent whom=Recipient
8	confuse			ideas in the minds of the Russian peasants with regard to the demoniacal beings				nom confusion «state transitive»: of=patient
9	mind			the Russian peasants with regard to the demoniacal beings				nom mind «cognition 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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