Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 92
After killing the Snake, Ivan Popyalof and his brothers set off on their way home.
Who acts: Ivan · What happens: kill, set off · To what, where: Snake, way
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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 killing | mark |
| 2 | killing | kill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 set | advcl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Snake | det |
| 4 | Snake | Snake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 killing | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 killing | punct |
| 6 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 set | nsubj |
| 7 | Popyalof | Popyalof | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Ivan | flat |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 brothers | cc |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 10 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 Ivan | conj |
| 11 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 set | compound:prt |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 way | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 way | nmod:poss |
| 15 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 set | obl |
| 16 | home | home | ADV | _ | 15 way | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | gerund | Ivan and IVAN's brothers not said here | the Snake | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=Theme | ||||
| 2 | set off | past | Ivan and IVAN's brothers | brothers's way | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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