Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7, sentence 5

But he is stopped by the soldier, who persuades him to play cards with him for fillips, tricks him in various ways, and fillips him to such effect with a species of "three-man beetle," that the demon beats a hasty retreat.

Who acts: soldier, spirit, demon · What happens: stop, persuade, play, trick, fillip, beat · To what, where: spirit, cards, various ways, hasty retreat

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 (soldier, spirit, demon), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 stopped	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stopped	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 stopped	aux:pass
4	stopped	stop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 soldier	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 soldier	det
7	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stopped	obl:agent
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 persuades	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 persuades	nsubj
10	persuades	persuade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 soldier	acl:relcl
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 persuades	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 play	mark
13	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 persuades	xcomp
14	cards	card	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 play	obj
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 play	obl
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 fillips	case
18	fillips	fillip	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 play	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 tricks	punct
20	tricks	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 persuades	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 tricks	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 ways	case
23	various	various	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 ways	amod
24	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 tricks	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 fillips	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 fillips	cc
27	fillips	fillip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 stopped	conj
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 fillips	obj
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 effect	case
30	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 effect	amod
31	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fillips	obl
32	with	with	ADP	_	34 species	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 species	det
34	species	species	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 effect	nmod
35	of	of	ADP	_	40 beetle	case
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	40 beetle	punct
37	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 man	nummod
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 three	punct
39	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 beetle	compound
40	beetle	beetle	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 species	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 effect	punct
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 fillips	punct
43	that	that	SCONJ	_	46 beats	mark
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 demon	det
45	demon	demon	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 beats	nsubj
46	beats	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 fillips	advcl
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 retreat	det
48	hasty	hasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 retreat	amod
49	retreat	retreat	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 beats	obj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stop	present · passive	the soldier	spirit			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality subject=Eventuality
2	persuade	present	the soldier	spirit			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Patient clause=Result
3	play	to-infinitive	spirit not said here	cards		with spirit; for fillips	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent card=Theme for fillip=Eventuality
4	trick	present	the soldier not said here	spirit	various ways		vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
5	fillip	present	the soldier not said here	spirit		to such effect with a species of man beetle	tree rules
6	beat	present	the demon	a hasty retreat			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location retreat=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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