Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 24
The devil must be in it.”
What happens: be · To what, where: helter, devil
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 13. 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.
Mova's own parse. This tree 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 devil | det |
| 2 | devil | devil | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 it | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 it | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 devil | nmod |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 devil | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 devil | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | must | helter | 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: «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (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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