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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7, sentence 14

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This "legend" is evidently nothing more than an adaptation of one of the tales about the dull demons of olden times, whom the Christian story-teller has transformed into Satan and his subject fiends.

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**Who acts:** legend · **What happens:** be, transform · **To what, where:** nothing, Christian story teller, Satan

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (legend), 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:pg22373:62:14
# text = This "legend" is evidently nothing more than an adaptation of one of the tales about the dull demons of olden times, whom the Christian story-teller has transformed into Satan and his subject fiends.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	evidently	evidently	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	_
8	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
9	than	than	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	adaptation	adaptation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	about	about	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	dull	dull	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	demons	demon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	olden	olden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
25	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	32	obl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
27	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
28	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	teller	teller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	transformed	transform	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
33	into	into	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Satan	Satan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
37	subject	subject	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	fiends	fiend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | this legend | nothing |  |  |  | evidently *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **transform** | present · perfect · passive |  | the Christian story teller |  |  |  | into Satan and Satan's subject fiends *result*; the tales about the dull demons of olden times *obl* | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into satan=Result |

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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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