Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 9
Presently Ivan smites off six of his antagonist's heads, but they grow again as before.
Who acts: Ivan, heads · What happens: smite off, grow · To what, where: six
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, heads), 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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 3 smites | advmod |
| 2 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 smites | nsubj |
| 3 | smites | smite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 smites | compound:prt |
| 5 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 smites | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 heads | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 antagonist | nmod:poss |
| 8 | antagonist | antagonist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 heads | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 antagonist | case |
| 10 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 six | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 grow | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 grow | cc |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 grow | nsubj |
| 14 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 smites | conj |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 grow | advmod |
| 16 | as | as | ADV | _ | 17 before | advmod |
| 17 | before | before | ADV | _ | 14 grow | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 smites | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smite off | present | Ivan | six of Ivan's antagonist's heads | presently property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus six=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | grow | present | heads = head | again | before property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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