Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 13
The hut reels under the blow and its beams fall asunder; his brothers awake, and hasten to his aid, and the Chudo-Yudo is destroyed.
Who acts: hut, beams · What happens: reel, fall, hasten, destroy, beam · To what, where: blow, asunder, aid, Chudo Yudo
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 (hut, beams), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hut | det |
| 2 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reels | nsubj |
| 3 | reels | reel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | under | under | ADP | _ | 6 blow | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 blow | det |
| 6 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reels | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 fall | cc |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 beams | nmod:poss |
| 9 | beams | beam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 fall | nsubj |
| 10 | fall | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 reels | conj |
| 11 | asunder | asunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fall | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 awake | punct |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 14 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 awake | nsubj |
| 15 | awake | awake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 reels | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 hasten | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 hasten | cc |
| 18 | hasten | hasten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 awake | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 aid | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 aid | nmod:poss |
| 21 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hasten | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 destroyed | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 destroyed | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Yudo | det |
| 25 | Chudo | Chudo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Yudo | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 Chudo | punct |
| 27 | Yudo | Yudo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 destroyed | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 destroyed | aux:pass |
| 29 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 reels | parataxis |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reels | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reel | present | the hut | the blow | vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | fall | present | hut's beams | asunder | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient asunder=Result | ||||
| 3 | hasten | infinitive | the hut not said here | Ivan's aid | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to aid=Destination | ||||
| 4 | destroy | present · passive | the Chudo Yudo | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 5 | beam | hut | nom beam «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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