Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 69

They've sent him to Kazan and in Kazan they've chopped his head off on a block, and afterwards destroyed the block."

Who acts: roots · What happens: send, chop off, destroy · To what, where: roots, Kazan, head, block

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (roots), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sent	nsubj:pass
2	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sent	aux
3	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sent	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 Kazan	case
6	Kazan	Kazan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 chopped	cc
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 Kazan	case
9	Kazan	Kazan	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 chopped	obl
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 chopped	nsubj
11	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 chopped	aux
12	chopped	chop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 sent	conj
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 head	nmod:poss
14	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 chopped	obj
15	off	off	ADP	_	12 chopped	compound:prt
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 block	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 block	det
18	block	block	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 chopped	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 destroyed	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 destroyed	cc
21	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	22 destroyed	advmod
22	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sent	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 block	det
24	block	block	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 destroyed	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sent	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	send	present · perfect · passive		roots = root	Kazan			tree rules
2	chop off	present · perfect	roots = root	Kazan's head		Kazan	on a block	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent head=Patient in kazan=Location
3	destroy	past		the block			afterwards property	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent block=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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