--- title: But the ghastly blood-sucker, the _Upir_,[418] whose name has become… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: But the ghastly blood-sucker, the _Upir_,[418] whose name has become naturalized in so many alien lands under forms resembling our "Vampire," disturbs the peasant-mind in many other parts of Russia, though not perhaps with the same intense fear which it spreads among the inhabitants of the above-nam --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/54/92/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collecti…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/) / [Ghost Stories., part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/54/) / 92 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 92 But the ghastly blood-sucker, the \_Upir\_,\[418\] whose name has become naturalized in so many alien lands under forms resembling our "Vampire," disturbs the peasant-mind in many other parts of Russia, though not perhaps with the same intense fear which it spreads among the inhabitants of the above-named districts, or of some other Slavonic lands. **Who acts:** ghastly blood sucker, forms, same intense fear · **What happens:** become, naturalize, resemble, disturb, spread, name · **To what, where:** many alien lands, Vampire, peasant mind, many other parts, inhabitants 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 (ghastly blood sucker, forms, same intense fear), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg22373:54:92 # text = But the ghastly blood-sucker, the _Upir_,[418] whose name has become naturalized in so many alien lands under forms resembling our "Vampire," disturbs the peasant-mind in many other parts of Russia, though not perhaps with the same intense fear which it spreads among the inhabitants of the above-named districts, or of some other Slavonic lands. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 3 ghastly ghastly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 4 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 sucker sucker NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 _ _ PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 Upir Upir PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 11 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 418 418 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 14 punct _ _ 16 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 18 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 become become VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 20 naturalized naturalize VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 xcomp _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 22 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 24 alien alien ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 lands land NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 26 under under ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 forms form NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ _ 28 resembling resemble VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 27 acl _ _ 29 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 30 " " PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 Vampire vampire NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 " " PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ _ 34 disturbs disturb VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 36 peasant peasant NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 37 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 40 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 41 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 parts part NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obl _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 Russia Russia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 46 though though SCONJ IN _ 48 mark _ _ 47 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 48 advmod _ _ 48 perhaps perhaps ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 49 with with ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 50 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 53 det _ _ 51 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 53 amod _ _ 52 intense intense ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 53 amod _ _ 53 fear fear NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obl _ _ 54 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 56 nsubj _ _ 55 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 56 nsubj _ _ 56 spreads spread VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 53 acl:relcl _ _ 57 among among ADP IN _ 59 case _ _ 58 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 59 det _ _ 59 inhabitants inhabitant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 56 obl _ _ 60 of of ADP IN _ 65 case _ _ 61 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 65 det _ _ 62 above above ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 64 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 63 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 62 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 64 named name VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 65 amod _ _ 65 districts district NOUN NNS Number=Plur 59 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 66 , , PUNCT , _ 72 punct _ _ 67 or or CCONJ CC _ 72 cc _ _ 68 of of ADP IN _ 72 case _ _ 69 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 72 det _ _ 70 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 72 amod _ _ 71 Slavonic slavonic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 72 amod _ _ 72 lands land NOUN NNS Number=Plur 56 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 73 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **become** | present · perfect | the ghastly blood sucker | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **naturalize** | participle | the ghastly blood sucker *not said here* | | | many alien lands under forms | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **resemble** | gerund | forms *not said here* | our Vampire | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **disturb** | present | the ghastly blood sucker *not said here* | the peasant mind | | many other parts of Russia | | perhaps *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus mind=Experiencer | | 5 | **spread** | present | the same intense fear | | | the inhabitants of the named districts | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among inhabitant=Location | | 6 | **name** | participle | | | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 91](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/54/91/) - next →: [sentence 93](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/54/93/) - ↑ back to [Ghost Stories., part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/54/)