Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 27
Accordingly she pursues the three brothers, and succeeds in swallowing two of them.
Who acts: Hag · What happens: pursue, succeed, swallow · To what, where: three brothers, two
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 (Hag), 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 | Accordingly | accordingly | ADV | _ | 3 pursues | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 pursues | nsubj |
| 3 | pursues | pursue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 brothers | det |
| 5 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 brothers | nummod |
| 6 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 pursues | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 succeeds | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 succeeds | cc |
| 9 | succeeds | succeed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 pursues | conj |
| 10 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 11 swallowing | mark |
| 11 | swallowing | swallow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 succeeds | advcl |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 swallowing | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 two | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pursues | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pursue | present | Hag | the three brothers | accordingly property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme | |||
| 2 | succeed | present | Hag not said here | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | swallow | gerund | Hag not said here | two of brothers | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=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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