Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 3

The world itself was not then as it is now: now there are no such Evil Powers among us.

Who acts: manner · What happens: be · To what, where: such Evil Powers

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Oh: the Tsar of the Forest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (manner), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 world	det
2	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 Powers	nmod:poss
3	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	2 world	nmod:unmarked
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 Powers	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 then	advmod
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 Powers	advmod
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 is	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 is	nsubj
9	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 Powers	advcl
10	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 is	advmod
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 is	punct
12	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 are	advmod
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 are	expl
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 Powers	cop
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 Powers	det
16	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Powers	amod
17	Evil	evil	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 Powers	compound
18	Powers	power	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
19	among	among	ADP	_	20 us	case
20	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 Powers	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 Powers	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	manner				now		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past		the world world's such Evil Powers			then	among us	tree rules

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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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