Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7, sentence 2

Thus, an evil spirit is described as coming every night at twelve o'clock to the chamber of a certain princess, and giving her no rest till the dawn of day.

What happens: describe, come, give · To what, where: evil spirit, twelve o'clock, rest

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: 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	_	7 described	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Thus	punct
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 spirit	det
4	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 spirit	amod
5	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 described	nsubj:pass
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 described	aux:pass
7	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 coming	mark
9	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 described	advcl
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 night	det
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 coming	obl:unmarked
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 o'clock	case
13	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 o'clock	nummod
14	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 coming	obl
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 chamber	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 chamber	det
17	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 coming	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 princess	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 princess	det
20	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 princess	amod
21	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 chamber	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 giving	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 giving	cc
24	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 described	advcl
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 rest	nmod:poss
26	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	27 rest	det
27	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 giving	obj
28	till	till	ADP	_	30 dawn	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 dawn	det
30	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 giving	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 day	case
32	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 dawn	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 described	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	describe	present · passive	a evil spirit			thus property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme
2	come	gerund		twelve o'clock	night	to the chamber of a certain princess	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to chamber=Initial_Location
3	give	gerund	princess's rest		dawn		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=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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