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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 71

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The demon rabble of "Popular Tales" are merely the lubber fiends of heathen mythology, beings endowed with supernatural might, but scantily provided with mental power; all of terrific manual clutch, but of weak intellectual grasp.

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**Who acts:** demon rabble · **What happens:** be, endow, provide · **To what, where:** lubber fiends, beings

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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 (demon rabble), 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:pg22373:61:71
# text = The demon rabble of "Popular Tales" are merely the lubber fiends of heathen mythology, beings endowed with supernatural might, but scantily provided with mental power; all of terrific manual clutch, but of weak intellectual grasp.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	demon	demon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	rabble	rabble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
10	merely	merely	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	lubber	lubber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	fiends	fiend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	heathen	heathen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	mythology	mythology	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	beings	being	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
19	endowed	endow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	supernatural	supernatural	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	scantily	scantily	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	provided	provide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	parataxis	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	mental	mental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
31	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	35	advmod	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	terrific	terrific	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
34	manual	manual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	clutch	clutch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
37	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
40	intellectual	intellectual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	grasp	grasp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the demon rabble of Popular Tales | the lubber fiends and beings and terrific manual clutch but weak intellectual grasp |  |  |  | of heathen mythology; merely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **endow** | participle |  | beings *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **provide** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with mental power; scantily *property* | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent with power=Theme |

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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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