Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 119
The robbers were frightened out of their wits, flung away their spoil and scampered off.
Who acts: robbers · What happens: frighten, fling away, scamper off, spoil · To what, where: robbers, wits, spoil
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (robbers), 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 | 2 robbers | det |
| 2 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 frightened | aux:pass |
| 4 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 wits | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 wits | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 wits | nmod:poss |
| 8 | wits | wit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 frightened | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 flung | punct |
| 10 | flung | fling | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 frightened | parataxis |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 flung | advmod |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 spoil | nmod:poss |
| 13 | spoil | spoil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 flung | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 scampered | cc |
| 15 | scampered | scamper | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 flung | conj |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 scampered | compound:prt |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 frightened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frighten | past · passive | the robbers | robbers's wits | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | fling away | participle | robbers's spoil | away property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spoil=Theme | ||||
| 3 | scamper off | participle | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | spoil | robbers = robber | nom spoil «possession transitive»: poss=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.
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