Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8, sentence 25
From that time forward the Smith gave up spitting at the Demon and striking him with his hammer.
Who acts: you, Smith · What happens: forward, give up, spit, strike · To what, where: Demon
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Smith), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 forward | obl |
| 4 | forward | forward | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Smith | det |
| 6 | Smith | Smith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 gave | nsubj |
| 7 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 forward | ccomp |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 gave | compound:prt |
| 9 | spitting | spit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 gave | advcl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 Demon | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Demon | det |
| 12 | Demon | Demon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 spitting | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 striking | cc |
| 14 | striking | strike | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 spitting | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 striking | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 hammer | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 hammer | nmod:poss |
| 18 | hammer | hammer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 striking | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 forward | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forward | imperative | you not said here | time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give up | past | the Smith | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | spit | gerund | the Smith not said here | at the Demon | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | strike | gerund | the Smith not said here | Demon | with Demon's hammer | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with hammer=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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