Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 124
Late in the evening the pope dragged the goat indoors, killed it, and took off its skin--horns, beard, and all complete.
Who acts: pope · What happens: drag, kill, take off · To what, where: goat, skin
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pope), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 dragged | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 evening | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 evening | det |
| 4 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dragged | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 pope | det |
| 6 | pope | pope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dragged | nsubj |
| 7 | dragged | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 goat | det |
| 9 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dragged | obj |
| 10 | indoors | indoors | ADV | _ | 7 dragged | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 killed | punct |
| 12 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 dragged | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 killed | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 took | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 took | cc |
| 16 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 dragged | parataxis |
| 17 | off | off | ADP | _ | 16 took | compound:prt |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 skin | nmod:poss |
| 19 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 took | obj |
| 20 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 horns | punct |
| 21 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 skin | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 beard | punct |
| 23 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 horns | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 complete | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 complete | cc |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 complete | det |
| 27 | complete | complete | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 took | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 dragged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drag | past | the pope | the goat | evening | indoors, late property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goat=Theme | ||
| 2 | kill | past | the pope not said here | goat | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take off | past | goat's skin and horns and beard | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=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.
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