Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 6

Ivan lops off three of the monster's heads, but they, like those of the Lernaean Hydra, become re-attached to their necks at the touch of their owner's "fiery finger."

Who acts: Ivan, those · What happens: lop off, become, re-attach, touch · To what, where: three, touch, fiery finger

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, those), 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	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 lops	nsubj
2	lops	lop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 lops	compound:prt
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 lops	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 heads	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 monster	det
7	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 heads	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 monster	case
9	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 three	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 become	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 become	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 those	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 those	punct
14	like	like	ADP	_	15 those	case
15	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	21 become	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 Hydra	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Hydra	det
18	Lernaean	Lernaean	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Hydra	compound
19	Hydra	Hydra	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 those	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 those	punct
21	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 lops	conj
22	re-attached	re-attach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 become	xcomp
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 necks	case
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 necks	nmod:poss
25	necks	neck	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 re-attached	obl
26	at	at	ADP	_	28 touch	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 touch	det
28	touch	touch	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 re-attached	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	35 finger	case
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 owner	nmod:poss
31	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 finger	nmod:poss
32	's	's	PART	_	31 owner	case
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 finger	punct
34	fiery	fiery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 finger	amod
35	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 touch	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lops	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 lops	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lop off	present	Ivan	three of the monster's heads			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent three=Theme
2	become	infinitive	those				tree rules
3	re-attach	participle	those not said here		the touch of heads's owner's fiery finger	to heads's necks	tree rules
4	touch			heads's owner's fiery finger			nom touch «event transitive»: of=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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