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description: Among the Scandinavians and especially in Iceland, were they the cause of many fears, though they were not supposed to be impelled by a thirst for blood so much as by other carnal appetites,[414] or by a kind of local malignity. Who acts: corpses, thirst. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 79

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Among the Scandinavians and especially in Iceland, were they the cause of many fears, though they were not supposed to be impelled by a thirst for blood so much as by other carnal appetites,\[414\] or by a kind of local malignity.

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**Who acts:** corpses, thirst · **What happens:** be, not suppose, impel · **To what, where:** cause, corpses

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (corpses, thirst), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg22373:54:79
# text = Among the Scandinavians and especially in Iceland, were they the cause of many fears, though they were not supposed to be impelled by a thirst for blood so much as by other carnal appetites,[414] or by a kind of local malignity.
1	Among	among	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Scandinavians	Scandinavian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Iceland	Iceland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	fears	fear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	supposed	suppose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	impelled	impel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	xcomp	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	thirst	thirst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl:agent	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	so	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	much	much	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
32	as	as	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
33	by	by	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
35	carnal	carnal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	appetites	appetite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	414	414	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	39	punct	_	_
41	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
42	by	by	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	malignity	malignity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | corpses *= corpse* | the cause or a kind of local malignity |  |  |  | among the Scandinavians and Iceland; of many fears | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **suppose** | past · passive |  | corpses *= corpse* |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 3 | **impel** | to-infinitive · passive | a thirst for blood |  |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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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