Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7, sentence 17

After a time he became an adept in the black art, and contracted an intimate acquaintance with the fiendish races.

Who acts: peasant · What happens: become, contract · To what, where: adept, intimate acquaintance

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 (peasant), 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 became	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 became	nsubj
5	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 adept	det
7	adept	adept	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 became	xcomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 art	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 art	det
10	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 art	amod
11	art	art	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 adept	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 contracted	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 contracted	cc
14	contracted	contract	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 became	conj
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 acquaintance	det
16	intimate	intimate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 acquaintance	amod
17	acquaintance	acquaintance	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 contracted	obj
18	with	with	ADP	_	21 races	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 races	det
20	fiendish	fiendish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 races	amod
21	races	race	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 contracted	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	peasant	a adept in the black art			time		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	contract	past	peasant not said here	a intimate acquaintance				with the fiendish races	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent acquaintance=Patient with race=Instrument

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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