Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 10

[83] Half buried in the ground by the monster's strength, Ivan hurls his other glove at the hut, piercing its roof this time.

Who acts: Ivan · What happens: bury, hurl, pierce · To what, where: 83 Half, ground, other glove, hut, roof

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2. 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	[	[	PUNCT	_	4 Half	punct
2	83	83	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 Half	nummod
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 83	punct
4	Half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	root	root
5	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 Half	acl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 ground	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ground	det
8	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 buried	obl
9	by	by	ADP	_	13 strength	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 monster	det
11	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 strength	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 monster	case
13	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 buried	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hurls	punct
15	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 hurls	nsubj
16	hurls	hurl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 Half	conj
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 glove	nmod:poss
18	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 glove	amod
19	glove	glove	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hurls	obj
20	at	at	ADP	_	22 hut	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 hut	det
22	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hurls	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 piercing	punct
24	piercing	pierce	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 hurls	advcl
25	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 roof	nmod:poss
26	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 piercing	obj
27	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 time	det
28	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 piercing	obl:unmarked
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 Half	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bury	participle		83 Half not said here	the ground		by the monster's strength	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in ground=Destination
2	hurl	present	Ivan	Ivan's other glove	the hut			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent glove=Theme at hut=Destination
3	pierce	gerund	Ivan not said here	hut's roof		time		vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roof=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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