--- title: But he is stopped by the soldier, who persuades him to play cards wi… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: But he is stopped by the soldier, who persuades him to play cards with him for fillips, tricks him in various ways, and fillips him to such effect with a species of "three-man beetle," that the demon beats a hasty retreat. Who acts: soldier, spirit, demon. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choic --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/62/5/) [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/) / 5 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7, sentence 5 But he is stopped by the soldier, who persuades him to play cards with him for fillips, tricks him in various ways, and fillips him to such effect with a species of "three-man beetle," that the demon beats a hasty retreat. **Who acts:** soldier, spirit, demon · **What happens:** stop, persuade, play, trick, fillip, beat · **To what, where:** spirit, cards, various ways, hasty retreat 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 (soldier, spirit, demon), 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:pg22373:62:5 # text = But he is stopped by the soldier, who persuades him to play cards with him for fillips, tricks him in various ways, and fillips him to such effect with a species of "three-man beetle," that the demon beats a hasty retreat. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 stopped stop VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 by by ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 soldier soldier NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl:agent _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 persuades persuade VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 11 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 play play VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 14 cards card NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obl _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 fillips fillip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 tricks trick VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 21 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 various various ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 ways way NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 fillips fillip VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 28 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 to to ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 effect effect NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 32 with with ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 species species NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 36 " " PUNCT `` _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 39 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 40 beetle beetle NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 " " PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ 43 that that SCONJ IN _ 46 mark _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 demon demon NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nsubj _ _ 46 beats beat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ _ 47 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 48 hasty hasty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 49 retreat retreat NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stop** | present · passive | the soldier | spirit | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality subject=Eventuality | | 2 | **persuade** | present | the soldier | spirit | | | | | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Patient clause=Result | | 3 | **play** | to-infinitive | spirit *not said here* | cards | | | | with spirit; for fillips | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent card=Theme for fillip=Eventuality | | 4 | **trick** | present | the soldier *not said here* | spirit | | various ways | | | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | | 5 | **fillip** | present | the soldier *not said here* | spirit | | | | to such effect with a species of man beetle | tree rules | | 6 | **beat** | present | the demon | a hasty retreat | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location retreat=Theme | 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 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/62/4/) - next →: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/62/6/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VI. 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