Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 94
Thus, as we have already seen, the story of the Awful Drunkard[477] represents the devil himself as being grateful to a man who has rebuked an irascible old woman for unjustly blaming the Prince of Darkness.
Who acts: we, story, man · What happens: see, represent, be, rebuke, blame · To what, where: devil, irascible old woman, Prince
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 (we, story, 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 18 represents | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Thus | punct |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 seen | mark |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 seen | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 seen | aux |
| 6 | already | already | ADV | _ | 7 seen | advmod |
| 7 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 represents | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 seen | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 story | det |
| 10 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 represents | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Drunkard | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Drunkard | det |
| 13 | Awful | awful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Drunkard | amod |
| 14 | Drunkard | Drunkard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 story | nmod |
| 15 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 16 477 | punct |
| 16 | 477 | 477 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 Drunkard | appos |
| 17 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 16 477 | punct |
| 18 | represents | represent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 devil | det |
| 20 | devil | devil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 represents | obj |
| 21 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 20 devil | nmod:unmarked |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 grateful | mark |
| 23 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 grateful | cop |
| 24 | grateful | grateful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 represents | advcl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 man | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 man | det |
| 27 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 grateful | obl |
| 28 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 rebuked | nsubj |
| 29 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 rebuked | aux |
| 30 | rebuked | rebuke | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 man | acl:relcl |
| 31 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 woman | det |
| 32 | irascible | irascible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 woman | amod |
| 33 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 woman | amod |
| 34 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 rebuked | obj |
| 35 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 37 blaming | mark |
| 36 | unjustly | unjustly | ADV | _ | 37 blaming | advmod |
| 37 | blaming | blame | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 rebuked | advcl |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 Prince | det |
| 39 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 blaming | obj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 Darkness | case |
| 41 | Darkness | Darkness | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Prince | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 represents | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present · perfect | we | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | represent | present | the story of the Awful Drunkard | the devil fiend | thus property | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot devil=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | gerund | the story of the Awful Drunkard not said here | to a man; grateful property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | rebuke | present · perfect | a man | a irascible old woman | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Theme | ||||
| 5 | blame | gerund | a man not said here | the Prince of Darkness | unjustly property | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=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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