Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 73
When the devil heard that, "he booked her soul too."
Who acts: devil, man · What happens: hear, book · To what, where: that, soul
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 (devil, man), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 heard | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 devil | det |
| 3 | devil | devil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 booked | advcl |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 heard | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 booked | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 booked | nsubj |
| 9 | booked | book | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 soul | nmod:poss |
| 11 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 booked | obj |
| 12 | too | too | ADV | _ | 9 booked | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 booked | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 booked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the devil | that | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | book in a quote | past | man | maid's soul | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=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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