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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

advmodpunctmarknsubjauxadvmodadvclpunctdetnsubjcasedetamodnmodpunctappospunctdetobjnmod:unmarkedmarkcopadvclcasedetoblnsubjauxacl:relcldetamodamodobjmarkadvmodadvcldetobjcasenmodpunctrootThusADV,PUNCTasSCONJwePRONhaveAUXalreadyADVseenVERB,PUNCTtheDETstoryNOUNofADPtheDETAwfulADJDrunkardPROPN[PUNCT477NUM]PUNCTrepresentsVERBtheDETdevilNOUNhimselfPRONasSCONJbeingAUXgratefulADJtoADPaDETmanNOUNwhoPRONhasAUXrebukedVERBanDETirascibleADJoldADJwomanNOUNforSCONJunjustlyADVblamingVERBtheDETPrincePROPNofADPDarknessPROPN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThusthusADV_18 representsadvmod
2,,PUNCT_1 Thuspunct
3asasSCONJ_7 seenmark
4wewePRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs7 seennsubj
5havehaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin7 seenaux
6alreadyalreadyADV_7 seenadvmod
7seenseeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part18 representsadvcl
8,,PUNCT_7 seenpunct
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 storydet
10storystoryNOUNNumber=Sing18 representsnsubj
11ofofADP_14 Drunkardcase
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 Drunkarddet
13AwfulawfulADJDegree=Pos14 Drunkardamod
14DrunkardDrunkardPROPNNumber=Sing10 storynmod
15[[PUNCT_16 477punct
16477477NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card14 Drunkardappos
17]]PUNCT_16 477punct
18representsrepresentVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art20 devildet
20devildevilNOUNNumber=Sing18 representsobj
21himselfhimselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes20 devilnmod:unmarked
22asasSCONJ_24 gratefulmark
23beingbeAUXTense=Pres VerbForm=Part24 gratefulcop
24gratefulgratefulADJDegree=Pos18 representsadvcl
25totoADP_27 mancase
26aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art27 mandet
27manmanNOUNNumber=Sing24 gratefulobl
28whowhoPRONPronType=Rel30 rebukednsubj
29hashaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin30 rebukedaux
30rebukedrebukeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part27 manacl:relcl
31anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art34 womandet
32irascibleirascibleADJDegree=Pos34 womanamod
33oldoldADJDegree=Pos34 womanamod
34womanwomanNOUNNumber=Sing30 rebukedobj
35forforSCONJ_37 blamingmark
36unjustlyunjustlyADV_37 blamingadvmod
37blamingblameVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part30 rebukedadvcl
38thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art39 Princedet
39PrincePrincePROPNNumber=Sing37 blamingobj
40ofofADP_41 Darknesscase
41DarknessDarknessPROPNNumber=Sing39 Princenmod
42..PUNCT_18 representspunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1seepresent · perfectwevn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2representpresentthe story of the Awful Drunkardthe devil fiendthus propertyvn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot devil=Theme
3isgerundthe story of the Awful Drunkard not said hereto a man; grateful propertytree rules
4rebukepresent · perfecta mana irascible old womanvn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Theme
5blamegerunda man not said herethe Prince of Darknessunjustly propertyvn 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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