--- title: In another Moravian story in the same collection (No. 8) entitled "D… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: In another Moravian story in the same collection (No. 8) entitled "Der boese Geist im Dienste," an evil spirit steals the food which a man had left outside his house for poor passers by. Who acts: evil spirit, man. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chap --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/61/136/) [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/) / [Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/61/) / 136 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 136 In another Moravian story in the same collection (No. 8) entitled "Der boese Geist im Dienste," an evil spirit steals the food which a man had left outside his house for poor passers by. **Who acts:** evil spirit, man · **What happens:** entitle, steal, leave · **To what, where:** Geist, Moravian story, food, house This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (evil spirit, man), 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:pg22373:61:136 # text = In another Moravian story in the same collection (No. 8) entitled "Der boese Geist im Dienste," an evil spirit steals the food which a man had left outside his house for poor passers by. 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 4 det _ _ 3 Moravian Moravian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 collection collection NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 9 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 No. no. NOUN NN Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing 8 appos _ _ 11 8 8 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 10 punct _ _ 13 entitled entitle VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 Der Der PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 boese boese NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod:desc _ _ 17 Geist Geist PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 18 im im ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 Dienste Dienste PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 22 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 evil evil ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 spirit spirit NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 steals steal VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 32 obj _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 31 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 27 acl:relcl _ _ 33 outside outside ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 36 for for ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 passers passer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ _ 39 by by ADP IN _ 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **entitle** | past | | Geist Der boese im Dienste | | another Moravian story in the same collection | | | tree rules | | 2 | **steal** | present | a evil spirit | the food | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location food=Theme | | 3 | **leave** | past · perfect | a man | the food | | No.'s house | | for poor passers | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent which=Theme outside house=Location | 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 135](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/61/135/) - next →: [sentence 137](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/61/137/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VI. 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