Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 204
The Simpleton grew angry, dealt him a blow with his hatchet, and struck him dead.
Who acts: Simpleton · What happens: grow, deal, strike · To what, where: blow, Diachok
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 (Simpleton), 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 Simpleton | det |
| 2 | Simpleton | Simpleton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 grew | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 dealt | punct |
| 6 | dealt | deal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grew | conj |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 dealt | obj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 blow | det |
| 9 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dealt | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 hatchet | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 hatchet | nmod:poss |
| 12 | hatchet | hatchet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 blow | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 struck | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 struck | cc |
| 15 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grew | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 struck | obj |
| 17 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 struck | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the Simpleton | angry property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | deal | past | the Simpleton not said here | a blow | Diachok | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient blow=Theme | |||
| 3 | strike | past | the Simpleton not said here | Diachok | dead property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument |
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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