Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 52
Becoming tired on the way, he drops the bag, and the old woman is killed.
Who acts: man · What happens: become, drop, kill · To what, where: way, bag, old woman
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 (man), 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 | Becoming | become | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 drops | advcl |
| 2 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Becoming | xcomp |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 way | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 way | det |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Becoming | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Becoming | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 drops | nsubj |
| 8 | drops | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bag | det |
| 10 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 drops | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 killed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 killed | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 woman | det |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 woman | amod |
| 15 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 killed | aux:pass |
| 17 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 drops | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 drops | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | gerund | man not said here | the way | tired property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | drop | present | man | the bag | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Theme | ||||
| 3 | kill | present · passive | the old woman | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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