Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 31
So the little demon flung his arms round the carcase, and dragged it under the stove.
Who acts: little demon · What happens: fling, drag · To what, where: arms, carcase, stove
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 (little 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 flung | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 demon | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 demon | amod |
| 4 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flung | nsubj |
| 5 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 arms | nmod:poss |
| 7 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 flung | obj |
| 8 | round | round | ADP | _ | 10 carcase | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 carcase | det |
| 10 | carcase | carcase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flung | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dragged | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 dragged | cc |
| 13 | dragged | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 flung | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 dragged | obj |
| 15 | under | under | ADP | _ | 17 stove | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 stove | det |
| 17 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dragged | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 flung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fling | past | the little demon | crone's arms | round the carcase | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme | |||
| 2 | drag | past | the little demon not said here | carcase | the stove | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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