Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7, sentence 187
Demons: part played in the Skazkas by, 361; souls of babes stolen by, 363; legends about children devoted to, 364; about persons who give themselves to, 367; dulness of, 375; tricks played upon, 375; gratitude of, 377; resemblance of to snakes, 380
Who acts: persons, tricks · What happens: play, steal, devote, give · To what, where: part, Skazkas, babes, children
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 (persons, tricks), 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 | Demons | demon | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 part | punct |
| 3 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Demons | conj |
| 4 | played | play | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 part | acl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Skazkas | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Skazkas | det |
| 7 | Skazkas | Skazkas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 played | obl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 361 | case |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 by | punct |
| 10 | 361 | 361 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 played | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 souls | punct |
| 12 | souls | soul | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Demons | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 babes | case |
| 14 | babes | babe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 souls | nmod |
| 15 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 babes | acl |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 stolen | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 363 | punct |
| 18 | 363 | 363 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 souls | conj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 legends | punct |
| 20 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Demons | conj |
| 21 | about | about | ADP | _ | 22 children | case |
| 22 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 legends | nmod |
| 23 | devoted | devote | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 children | acl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 devoted | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 364 | punct |
| 26 | 364 | 364 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 legends | conj |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 persons | punct |
| 28 | about | about | ADP | _ | 29 persons | case |
| 29 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 legends | conj |
| 30 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 give | nsubj |
| 31 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 persons | acl:relcl |
| 32 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 31 give | obj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 give | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 367 | punct |
| 35 | 367 | 367 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 29 persons | conj |
| 36 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 dulness | punct |
| 37 | dulness | dulness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 persons | conj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 375 | case |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 of | punct |
| 40 | 375 | 375 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 37 dulness | nmod |
| 41 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 43 played | punct |
| 42 | tricks | trick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 played | nsubj |
| 43 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 persons | conj |
| 44 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 43 played | obl |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 375 | punct |
| 46 | 375 | 375 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 29 persons | conj |
| 47 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 48 gratitude | punct |
| 48 | gratitude | gratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 persons | conj |
| 49 | of | of | ADP | _ | 51 377 | case |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 of | punct |
| 51 | 377 | 377 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 48 gratitude | nmod |
| 52 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 53 resemblance | punct |
| 53 | resemblance | resemblance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 gratitude | conj |
| 54 | of | of | ADP | _ | 56 snakes | case |
| 55 | to | to | ADP | _ | 54 of | fixed |
| 56 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 53 resemblance | nmod |
| 57 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 58 380 | punct |
| 58 | 380 | 380 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 53 resemblance | appos |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | participle | part not said here | the Skazkas | by 361 | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | steal | participle | babes not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | devote | participle | children not said here | vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | give | present | persons and dulness of 375 and gratitude of 377 and resemblance of snakes | children = child | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme | ||||
| 5 | play | past | tricks | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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