--- title: Demons: part played in the Skazkas by, 361; souls of babes stolen by… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: Demons: part played in the Skazkas by, 361; souls of babes stolen by, 363; legends about children devoted to, 364; about persons who give themselves to, 367; dulness of, 375; tricks played upon, 375; gratitude of, 377; resemblance of to snakes, 380 Who acts: persons, tricks. A sentence of «Russian F --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/62/187/) [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 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/62/) / 187 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7, sentence 187 Demons: part played in the Skazkas by, 361; souls of babes stolen by, 363; legends about children devoted to, 364; about persons who give themselves to, 367; dulness of, 375; tricks played upon, 375; gratitude of, 377; resemblance of to snakes, 380 **Who acts:** persons, tricks · **What happens:** play, steal, devote, give · **To what, where:** part, Skazkas, babes, children 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 (persons, tricks), 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:pg22373:62:187 # text = Demons: part played in the Skazkas by, 361; souls of babes stolen by, 363; legends about children devoted to, 364; about persons who give themselves to, 367; dulness of, 375; tricks played upon, 375; gratitude of, 377; resemblance of to snakes, 380 1 Demons demon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 3 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 4 played play VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 Skazkas Skazkas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 by by ADP IN _ 10 case _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 10 361 361 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 12 souls soul NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 babes babe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ _ 15 stolen steal VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 acl _ _ 16 by by ADP IN _ 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 363 363 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 20 legends legend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 21 about about ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ _ 23 devoted devote VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 acl _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 364 364 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ; ; PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 28 about about ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 persons person NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 30 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ _ 31 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 acl:relcl _ _ 32 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 31 obj _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 367 367 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 29 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ; ; PUNCT : _ 37 punct _ _ 37 dulness dulness NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 40 375 375 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ; ; PUNCT : _ 43 punct _ _ 42 tricks trick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 nsubj _ _ 43 played play VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 44 upon upon ADP IN _ 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 46 375 375 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 29 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ; ; PUNCT : _ 48 punct _ _ 48 gratitude gratitude NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 49 of of ADP IN _ 51 case _ SpaceAfter=No 50 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 51 377 377 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 48 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 52 ; ; PUNCT : _ 53 punct _ _ 53 resemblance resemblance NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 conj _ _ 54 of of ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 55 to to ADP IN _ 54 fixed _ _ 56 snakes snake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 53 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 57 , , PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ _ 58 380 380 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 53 appos _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **play** | participle | | part *not said here* | | the Skazkas | | by 361 | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **steal** | participle | | babes *not said here* | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **devote** | participle | | children *not said here* | | | | | vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **give** | present | persons and dulness of 375 and gratitude of 377 and resemblance of snakes | children *= child* | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme | | 5 | **play** | past | tricks | | | | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: 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 186](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/62/186/) - next →: [sentence 188](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/62/188/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VI. 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