Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 12

At last, after fruitlessly shearing off nine of the Chudo-Yudo's heads, and finding himself embedded in the ground up to his armpits, Ivan flings his cap at the hut.

Who acts: Ivan · What happens: shear off, find, embed up, fling · To what, where: nine, Ivan, ground, cap, last

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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 flings	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 shearing	punct
4	after	after	SCONJ	_	6 shearing	mark
5	fruitlessly	fruitlessly	ADV	_	6 shearing	advmod
6	shearing	shear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 last	parataxis
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 shearing	compound:prt
8	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 shearing	obl:unmarked
9	of	of	ADP	_	15 heads	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Yudo	det
11	Chudo	Chudo	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Yudo	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 Chudo	punct
13	Yudo	Yudo	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 heads	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 Yudo	case
15	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 nine	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 finding	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 finding	cc
18	finding	find	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 shearing	conj
19	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 finding	obj
20	embedded	embed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 finding	xcomp
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 ground	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 ground	det
23	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 embedded	obl
24	up	up	ADP	_	20 embedded	compound:prt
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 armpits	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 armpits	nmod:poss
27	armpits	armpit	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 embedded	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 last	punct
29	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 flings	nsubj
30	flings	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 cap	nmod:poss
32	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 flings	obj
33	at	at	ADP	_	35 hut	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 hut	det
35	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 flings	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 flings	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	shear off	gerund		nine of the Chudo Yudo's heads		fruitlessly property	vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	find	gerund		Ivan			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Attribute clause=Theme
3	embed up	participle	Ivan not said here		the ground	to Ivan's armpits	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in ground=Destination
4	fling	present	Ivan	Ivan's cap	last	at the hut	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent cap=Theme at last=Destination

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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