Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7, sentence 26

As soon as the refractory devil heard these words, he was so frightened that he surrendered the receipt, which was handed over to the visitor.

Who acts: refractory devil, devil · What happens: hear, be, surrender, hand over · To what, where: words, devil, receipt, visitor

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 (refractory devil, devil), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 heard	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 heard	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 devil	det
5	refractory	refractory	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 devil	compound
6	devil	devil	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 heard	nsubj
7	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 words	det
9	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 heard	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 frightened	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 frightened	nsubj:pass
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 frightened	cop
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 frightened	advmod
14	frightened	frightened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 heard	parataxis
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 surrendered	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 surrendered	nsubj
17	surrendered	surrender	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 frightened	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 receipt	det
19	receipt	receipt	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 surrendered	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 handed	punct
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 handed	nsubj:pass
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 handed	aux:pass
23	handed	hand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 receipt	acl
24	over	over	ADP	_	23 handed	compound:prt
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 visitor	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 visitor	det
27	visitor	visitor	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 handed	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the refractory devil	this words		soon property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
2	is	past · passive		devil		frightened property	tree rules
3	surrender	past	devil	the receipt			vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent receipt=Theme
4	hand over	past · passive		the receipt	the visitor		vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to visitor=Destination

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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