Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 28
The old demon seized her by the feet, and tore away at her so that he stripped off all her skin at one pull.
Who acts: old demon, crone · What happens: seize, strip off · To what, where: WITCH, skin, one pull
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 (old demon, crone), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 demon | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 demon | amod |
| 3 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seized | nsubj |
| 4 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 seized | obj |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 feet | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 feet | det |
| 8 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 seized | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 tore | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 tore | cc |
| 11 | tore | tore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seized | obl |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 tore | advmod |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 her | case |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 tore | nmod |
| 15 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 18 stripped | mark |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 so | fixed |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 stripped | nsubj |
| 18 | stripped | strip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 seized | advcl |
| 19 | off | off | ADP | _ | 18 stripped | compound:prt |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 skin | det:predet |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 skin | nmod:poss |
| 22 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stripped | obj |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 pull | case |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 pull | nummod |
| 25 | pull | pull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stripped | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past | the old demon | WITCH | by the feet; tore at WITCH obl | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 2 | strip off | past | crone | WITCH's skin | one pull | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient |
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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