Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 4
The next night he slays, but with more difficulty, a nine-headed specimen of the same family.
Who acts: Yudo · What happens: slay · To what, where: more difficulty
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 (Yudo), 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 | 3 night | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 night | amod |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 slays | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 slays | nsubj |
| 5 | slays | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 difficulty | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 difficulty | cc |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 difficulty | case |
| 9 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 difficulty | amod |
| 10 | difficulty | difficulty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 slays | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 specimen | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 specimen | det |
| 13 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 headed | nummod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 nine | punct |
| 15 | headed | headed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 specimen | amod |
| 16 | specimen | specimen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 difficulty | appos |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 family | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 family | det |
| 19 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 family | amod |
| 20 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 specimen | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 slays | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slay | present | Yudo | more difficulty | night | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent difficulty=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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