Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7, sentence 42

Another tradition states that the dog was originally "naked," _i.e._, without hair; but the devil, in order to seduce it from its loyalty, gave it a _shuba_, or pelisse, _i.e._, a coat of hair.

Who acts: tradition, dog, devil · What happens: state, be, seduce, give · To what, where: pelisse, dog, loyalty · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (tradition, dog, 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	Another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	2 tradition	det
2	tradition	tradition	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 states	nsubj
3	states	state	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 naked	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dog	det
6	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 naked	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 naked	cop
8	originally	originally	ADV	_	10 naked	advmod
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 naked	punct
10	naked	naked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 states	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 hair	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 hair	punct
13	_	_	PUNCT	_	18 hair	punct
14	i.e.	i.e.	ADV	_	18 hair	advmod
15	_	_	PUNCT	_	18 hair	punct
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 hair	punct
17	without	without	ADP	_	18 hair	case
18	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 states	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 seduce	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 seduce	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 devil	det
22	devil	devil	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 seduce	nsubj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 seduce	punct
24	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	27 seduce	mark
25	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 in	fixed
26	to	to	PART	_	27 seduce	mark
27	seduce	seduce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 states	conj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 seduce	obj
29	from	from	ADP	_	31 loyalty	case
30	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 loyalty	nmod:poss
31	loyalty	loyalty	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 seduce	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 gave	punct
33	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 states	parataxis
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 gave	obj
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 shuba	det
36	_	_	PUNCT	_	37 shuba	punct
37	shuba	shuba	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 gave	obj
38	_	_	PUNCT	_	33 gave	punct
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 pelisse	punct
40	or	or	CCONJ	_	41 pelisse	cc
41	pelisse	pelisse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 states	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 i.e.	punct
43	_	_	PUNCT	_	44 i.e.	punct
44	i.e.	i.e.	ADV	_	41 pelisse	appos
45	_	_	PUNCT	_	44 i.e.	punct
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 coat	punct
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 coat	det
48	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 pelisse	appos
49	of	of	ADP	_	50 hair	case
50	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 coat	nmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 states	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	state speech: other	present	another tradition	pelisse		without hair	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	past	the dog			naked, originally property	tree rules
3	seduce	to-infinitive	the devil	dog	dog's loyalty		vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	give	past		dog			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient shuba=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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