Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 78
Presently there came another Snake, a six-headed one, and him, too, Ivan killed.
Who acts: Ivan · What happens: come, kill · To what, where: 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 (Ivan), 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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 came | expl |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 Snake | det |
| 5 | Snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 one | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 one | det |
| 8 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 headed | nummod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 six | punct |
| 10 | headed | headed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 one | amod |
| 11 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Snake | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 him | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 him | cc |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 him | punct |
| 16 | too | too | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 killed | punct |
| 18 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 killed | nsubj |
| 19 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | another Snake and a headed one | there | presently property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location snake=Theme | |||
| 2 | kill | past | Ivan | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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