Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 28
The third, Ivan Koshkin, takes refuge in a smithy, and, as before, the monster's tongue is seized, and she is beaten with hammers until she disgorges her prey, none the worse for their temporary imprisonment.
Who acts: Ivan, monster, hammers · What happens: take, seize, beat, disgorge, imprison · To what, where: refuge, smithy, tongue, monster, prey
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, monster, hammers), 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 third | det |
| 2 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 takes | punct |
| 4 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 takes | nsubj |
| 5 | Koshkin | Koshkin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Ivan | flat |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Ivan | punct |
| 7 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 third | conj |
| 8 | refuge | refuge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 takes | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 smithy | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 smithy | det |
| 11 | smithy | smithy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 takes | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 seized | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 seized | cc |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 and | punct |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 before | case |
| 16 | before | before | ADV | _ | 23 seized | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 before | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 monster | det |
| 19 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 monster | case |
| 21 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 seized | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 seized | aux:pass |
| 23 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 takes | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 beaten | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 beaten | cc |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 beaten | nsubj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 beaten | aux:pass |
| 28 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 seized | conj |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 hammers | case |
| 30 | hammers | hammer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 beaten | obl |
| 31 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 33 disgorges | mark |
| 32 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 disgorges | nsubj |
| 33 | disgorges | disgorge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 beaten | advcl |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 prey | nmod:poss |
| 35 | prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 disgorges | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 none | punct |
| 37 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 35 prey | conj |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 worse | det |
| 39 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 37 none | acl:relcl |
| 40 | for | for | ADP | _ | 43 imprisonment | case |
| 41 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 imprisonment | nmod:poss |
| 42 | temporary | temporary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 imprisonment | amod |
| 43 | imprisonment | imprisonment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 worse | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 third | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | Ivan | refuge | a smithy | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent refuge=Value in smithy=Location | |||
| 2 | seize | present · passive | the monster's tongue | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | beat | present · passive | monster | with hammers | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with hammer=Instrument | ||||
| 4 | disgorge | present | monster | monster's prey | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prey=Theme | ||||
| 5 | imprison | hammers = hammer | nom imprisonment «act 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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