--- title: [448] Called _Lisun_, _Lisovik_, _Polisun_, &c. He answers to the _L… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: [448] Called _Lisun_, _Lisovik_, _Polisun_, &c. He answers to the _Lyeshy_ or wood-demon (_lyes_ = a forest) mentioned above, p. 212. Who acts: c., wood demon. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7, with its dependency tree and t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/62/87/) [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/) / 87 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7, sentence 87 \[448\] Called \_Lisun\_, \_Lisovik\_, \_Polisun\_, &c. He answers to the \_Lyeshy\_ or wood-demon (\_lyes\_ = a forest) mentioned above, p. 212. **Who acts:** c., wood demon · **What happens:** call, answer, mention · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (c., wood 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:pg22373:62:87 # text = [448] Called _Lisun_, _Lisovik_, _Polisun_, &c. He answers to the _Lyeshy_ or wood-demon (_lyes_ = a forest) mentioned above, p. 212. 1 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 448 448 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 2 punct _ _ 4 Called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 5 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 Lisun Lisun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 7 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 Lisovik Lisovik PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 13 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 Polisun Polisun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 15 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 & & CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 18 c. c. NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 19 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 answers answer VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 _ _ PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 Lyeshy Lyeshy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 24 punct _ _ 26 or or CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 28 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 demon demon NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 30 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 _ _ ADP IN _ 32 case _ SpaceAfter=No 32 lyes lye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 33 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 32 punct _ _ 34 = = SYM SYM _ 36 punct _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 32 punct _ _ 38 mentioned mention VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 acl:relcl _ _ 39 above above ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 41 p. P. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 42 212 212 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 41 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | participle | | | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | present | c. | | | | | to the Lyeshy or wood demon and p. | vn subordinate-95.2.1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to lyeshy=Co-Agent | | 3 | **mention** *speech: other* | past | wood demon *not said here* | | | | | above *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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 86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/62/86/) - next →: [sentence 88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/62/88/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VI. 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