Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7, sentence 14

This "legend" is evidently nothing more than an adaptation of one of the tales about the dull demons of olden times, whom the Christian story-teller has transformed into Satan and his subject fiends.

Who acts: legend · What happens: be, transform · To what, where: nothing, Christian story teller, Satan

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (legend), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 legend	det
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 legend	punct
3	legend	legend	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 nothing	nsubj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 legend	punct
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 nothing	cop
6	evidently	evidently	ADV	_	7 nothing	advmod
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
8	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 nothing	amod
9	than	than	ADP	_	11 adaptation	case
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 adaptation	det
11	adaptation	adaptation	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 more	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 one	case
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 adaptation	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 tales	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 tales	det
16	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 one	nmod
17	about	about	ADP	_	20 demons	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 demons	det
19	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 demons	amod
20	demons	demon	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 tales	nmod
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 times	case
22	olden	olden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 times	amod
23	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 demons	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 transformed	punct
25	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 transformed	obl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 teller	det
27	Christian	Christian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 teller	amod
28	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 teller	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 story	punct
30	teller	teller	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 transformed	nsubj:pass
31	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 transformed	aux
32	transformed	transform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 tales	acl
33	into	into	ADP	_	34 Satan	case
34	Satan	Satan	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 transformed	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 fiends	cc
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 fiends	nmod:poss
37	subject	subject	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 fiends	amod
38	fiends	fiend	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 Satan	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 nothing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	this legend	nothing				evidently property	tree rules
2	transform	present · perfect · passive		the Christian story teller				into Satan and Satan's subject fiends result; the tales about the dull demons of olden times obl	vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into satan=Result

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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