Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 90
And they killed the Snake, and then, having taken his heads, they went into his hut and destroyed them.
Who acts: brothers · What happens: kill, take, go, destroy · To what, where: Snake, heads, hut, brothers
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 (brothers), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 killed | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 killed | nsubj |
| 3 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Snake | det |
| 5 | Snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 killed | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 taken | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 taken | cc |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 taken | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 taken | punct |
| 10 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 taken | aux |
| 11 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 killed | conj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 heads | nmod:poss |
| 13 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 taken | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 went | punct |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 went | nsubj |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 killed | conj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 hut | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 hut | nmod:poss |
| 19 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 went | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 destroyed | cc |
| 21 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 went | conj |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 destroyed | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past | brothers = brother | the Snake | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | gerund · perfect | brothers = brother not said here | IVAN's heads | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | |||
| 3 | go | past | brothers = brother | IVAN's hut | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into hut=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | destroy | past | brothers = brother not said here | brothers = brother | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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