Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 67
When devils are introduced into a story of this class, it always assumes a grotesque, if not an absolutely comic air.
Who acts: class · What happens: introduce, assume · To what, where: devils, story, grotesque
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 (class), 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 introduced | advmod |
| 2 | devils | devil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 introduced | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 introduced | aux:pass |
| 4 | introduced | introduce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 assumes | advcl |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 story | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 story | det |
| 7 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 introduced | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 class | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 class | det |
| 10 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 story | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 introduced | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 assumes | nsubj |
| 13 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 14 assumes | advmod |
| 14 | assumes | assume | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 grotesque | det |
| 16 | grotesque | grotesque | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 assumes | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 air | punct |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 air | mark |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 air | advmod |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 air | det |
| 21 | absolutely | absolutely | ADV | _ | 22 comic | advmod |
| 22 | comic | comic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 air | amod |
| 23 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 assumes | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 assumes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | introduce | present · passive | devils | a story of this class | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | assume | present | class | a grotesque | a comic air obl; always property | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grotesque=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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