Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 55

There is a well-known story, which has spread far and wide over Europe, of a soldier who abstains for a term of years from washing, shaving, and hair-combing, and who serves, or at least obeys, the devil during that time, at the end of which he is rewarded by the fiend with great wealth.

Who acts: known story, soldier, fiend · What happens: be, know, spread, abstain, shave, serve · To what, where: known story, Europe, least obeys, story, years

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (known story, soldier, fiend), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 story	det
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 known	advmod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 well	punct
6	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 story	amod
7	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 spread	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 spread	nsubj:pass
10	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 spread	aux
11	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 story	acl:relcl
12	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 spread	advmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 wide	cc
14	wide	wide	ADV	_	12 far	conj
15	over	over	ADP	_	16 Europe	case
16	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 spread	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 soldier	punct
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 soldier	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 soldier	det
20	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 spread	parataxis
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 abstains	nsubj
22	abstains	abstain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 soldier	acl:relcl
23	for	for	ADP	_	25 term	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 term	det
25	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 abstains	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 years	case
27	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 term	nmod
28	from	from	ADP	_	29 washing	case
29	washing	washing	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 years	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 shaving	punct
31	shaving	shave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 abstains	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 combing	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 combing	cc
34	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 combing	compound
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 hair	punct
36	combing	combing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 serves	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 serves	cc
39	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 serves	nsubj
40	serves	serve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 is	parataxis
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 obeys	punct
42	or	or	CCONJ	_	45 obeys	cc
43	at	at	ADP	_	44 least	case
44	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	45 obeys	amod
45	obeys	obey	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 serves	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 devil	punct
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 devil	det
48	devil	devil	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 obeys	conj
49	during	during	ADP	_	51 time	case
50	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	51 time	det
51	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 serves	obl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 end	punct
53	at	at	ADP	_	55 end	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 end	det
55	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 serves	conj
56	of	of	ADP	_	57 which	case
57	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	60 rewarded	obl
58	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 rewarded	nsubj
59	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	60 rewarded	aux:pass
60	rewarded	reward	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	55 end	acl:relcl
61	by	by	ADP	_	63 fiend	case
62	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	63 fiend	det
63	fiend	fiend	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 rewarded	obl
64	with	with	ADP	_	66 wealth	case
65	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	66 wealth	amod
66	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 fiend	nmod
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	a known story		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	know	participle					well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	spread	present · perfect · passive		a known story	Europe		far property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme over europe=Destination
4	abstain	present	a soldier				for a term of years from washing	vn refrain-69 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	shave	gerund	a soldier not said here					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	serve	present		least obeys and the devil		time		vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent
7	reward	present · passive	the fiend with great wealth	story		of the end		vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient
8	term			years from washing				nom term «communication 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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