Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 63
So when he had got everything ready, he went forth with his brothers to fight the Snake.
Who acts: forehead · What happens: get, go, fight · To what, where: everything, Snake
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 (forehead), 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 | _ | 10 went | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 got | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 got | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | aux |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 went | parataxis |
| 6 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 5 got | obj |
| 7 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 got | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 went | nsubj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 10 went | advmod |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 brothers | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 14 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 went | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 fight | mark |
| 16 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 went | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Snake | det |
| 18 | Snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fight | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · perfect | forehead | everything | ready property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | go | past | forehead | with forehead's brothers; forth property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with brother=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | fight | to-infinitive | forehead not said here | the Snake | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=Co-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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