Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 132
So the demon who had stolen it "turned himself into a good youth," and became the peasant's hireling.
Who acts: demon · What happens: steal, turn, become · To what, where: place, crust, good youth, hireling
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 (demon), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 9 turned | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 demon | det |
| 3 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 turned | nsubj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 stolen | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stolen | aux |
| 6 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 demon | acl |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 stolen | obj |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 stolen | punct |
| 9 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 turned | obj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 youth | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 youth | det |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 youth | amod |
| 14 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 turned | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 youth | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 youth | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 became | cc |
| 18 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 turned | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 peasant | det |
| 20 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hireling | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 peasant | case |
| 22 | hireling | hireling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 became | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal | past · perfect | the demon | place | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | turn in a quote | past | the demon | crust | a good youth | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent himself=Theme into youth=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | become | past | the demon not said here | the peasant's hireling | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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