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title: In the _Awful Drunkard_ (No. 6), and the _Fiddler in Hell_ (No. 41),… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: In the _Awful Drunkard_ (No. 6), and the _Fiddler in Hell_ (No. 41), the abode of evil spirits is portrayed, and some light is thrown on their manners and customs; and in the _Smith and the Demon_ (No. 13), the portrait of one of their number is drawn in no unkindly spirit. Who acts: _ Smith. A sent
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 131

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In the \_Awful Drunkard\_ (No. 6), and the \_Fiddler in Hell\_ (No. 41), the abode of evil spirits is portrayed, and some light is thrown on their manners and customs; and in the \_Smith and the Demon\_ (No. 13), the portrait of one of their number is drawn in no unkindly spirit.

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**Who acts:** \_ Smith · **What happens:** portray, throw, draw · **To what, where:** Fiddler, Awful Drunkard, light, manners, number, unkindly spirit

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, 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 (\_ Smith), 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:pg22373:59:131
# text = In the _Awful Drunkard_ (No. 6), and the _Fiddler in Hell_ (No. 41), the abode of evil spirits is portrayed, and some light is thrown on their manners and customs; and in the _Smith and the Demon_ (No. 13), the portrait of one of their number is drawn in no unkindly spirit.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Awful	awful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Drunkard	Drunkard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	_
7	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	No.	no.	NOUN	NN	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
9	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Fiddler	fiddler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Hell	Hell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	17	punct	_	_
19	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	No.	no.	NOUN	NN	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
21	41	41	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	abode	abode	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	portrayed	portray	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
33	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	34	det	_	_
34	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
35	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux:pass	_	_
36	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	conj	_	_
37	on	on	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	manners	manners	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	36	obl	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	customs	custom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	47	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	Smith	Smith	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obl:agent	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	Demon	Demon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	50	punct	_	_
52	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	53	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	No.	no.	NOUN	NN	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	50	appos	_	_
54	13	13	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	53	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	53	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	portrait	portrait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	appos	_	_
59	of	of	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
60	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	58	nmod	_	_
61	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	65	mark	_	_
62	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	63	nmod:poss	_	_
63	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	65	nsubj	_	_
64	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	65	aux:pass	_	_
65	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	58	acl	_	_
66	in	in	ADP	IN	_	69	case	_	_
67	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	69	det	_	_
68	unkindly	unkindly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	69	amod	_	_
69	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	65	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **portray** | present · passive | the \_ Smith and the Demon | the Fiddler in Hell and the abode of evil spirits |  | the Awful Drunkard |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **throw** | present · passive |  | some light |  | spirits's manners and customs |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme on manners=Destination |
| 3 | **draw** | present · passive |  | spirits's number |  | no unkindly spirit |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in spirit=Destination |

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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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