Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 51
So when the mace fell down again it hit him on the forehead.
Who acts: mace · What happens: fall down, hit · To what, where: IVAN
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mace), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 fell | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 fell | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 mace | det |
| 4 | mace | mace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fell | nsubj |
| 5 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 5 fell | advmod |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 fell | advmod |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 hit | nsubj |
| 9 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fell | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 hit | obj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 forehead | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 forehead | det |
| 13 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hit | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall down | past | the mace | again | down property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | hit | past | mace | IVAN | on the forehead | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument on forehead=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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