Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 101
One of the most interesting of the stories of this class is that of the man who unwittingly blesses the devil.
Who acts: man · What happens: be, bless · To what, where: devil
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 interesting | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 interesting | det |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 interesting | advmod |
| 5 | interesting | interesting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 One | acl:relcl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 stories | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 stories | det |
| 8 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 interesting | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 class | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 class | det |
| 11 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stories | nmod |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 man | cop |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 man | mark |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 man | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 One | appos |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 blesses | nsubj |
| 18 | unwittingly | unwittingly | ADV | _ | 19 blesses | advmod |
| 19 | blesses | bless | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 man | acl:relcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 devil | det |
| 21 | devil | devil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 blesses | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 One | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | of the man | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | bless | present | the man | the devil | unwittingly property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent devil=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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