Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 136

In another Moravian story in the same collection (No. 8) entitled "Der boese Geist im Dienste," an evil spirit steals the food which a man had left outside his house for poor passers by.

Who acts: evil spirit, man · What happens: entitle, steal, leave · To what, where: Geist, Moravian story, food, house

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 (evil spirit, 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 story	case
2	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	4 story	det
3	Moravian	Moravian	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 story	compound
4	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 entitled	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 collection	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 collection	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 collection	amod
8	collection	collection	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 story	nmod
9	(	(	PUNCT	_	10 No.	punct
10	No.	no.	NOUN	Abbr=Yes Number=Sing	8 collection	appos
11	8	8	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 No.	flat
12	)	)	PUNCT	_	10 No.	punct
13	entitled	entitle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 Geist	punct
15	Der	Der	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 boese	compound
16	boese	boese	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 Geist	nmod:desc
17	Geist	Geist	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 entitled	obl
18	im	im	ADP	_	19 Dienste	case
19	Dienste	Dienste	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Geist	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 steals	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 steals	punct
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 spirit	det
23	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 spirit	amod
24	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 steals	nsubj
25	steals	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 entitled	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 food	det
27	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 steals	obj
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 left	obj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 man	det
30	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 left	nsubj
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 left	aux
32	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 food	acl:relcl
33	outside	outside	ADP	_	35 house	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 house	nmod:poss
35	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 left	obl
36	for	for	ADP	_	38 passers	case
37	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 passers	amod
38	passers	passer	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 left	obl
39	by	by	ADP	_	32 left	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 entitled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	entitle	past		Geist Der boese im Dienste	another Moravian story in the same collection		tree rules
2	steal	present	a evil spirit	the food			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location food=Theme
3	leave	past · perfect	a man	the food	No.'s house	for poor passers	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent which=Theme outside house=Location

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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