Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 106

Like the vital centre of "the giant who had no heart in his body" in the well-known Norse tale, it is something extraneous to the being whom it affects, and until it is destroyed he may set all ordinary means of annihilation at defiance.

Who acts: vital centre, body, centre · What happens: have, know, be, affect, destroy, set · To what, where: heart, body, something, ordinary · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (vital centre, body, centre), 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	Like	like	ADP	_	4 centre	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 centre	det
3	vital	vital	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 centre	amod
4	centre	centre	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 means	nsubj
5	of	of	SCONJ	_	8 giant	mark
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 giant	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 giant	det
8	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 centre	acl
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 centre	parataxis
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 heart	det
12	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 body	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 body	nmod:poss
15	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obl
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 body	punct
17	in	in	ADP	_	23 tale	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 tale	det
19	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 known	advmod
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 well	punct
21	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 tale	amod
22	Norse	norse	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 tale	amod
23	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 something	punct
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 something	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 something	cop
27	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	23 tale	appos
28	extraneous	extraneous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 something	amod
29	to	to	ADP	_	32 whom	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 whom	det
31	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 whom	cop
32	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 extraneous	obl
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 affects	nsubj
34	affects	affect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 whom	acl:relcl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 set	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 set	cc
37	until	until	SCONJ	_	40 destroyed	mark
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 destroyed	nsubj:pass
39	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 destroyed	aux:pass
40	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	43 set	advcl
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 set	nsubj
42	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 set	aux
43	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 had	conj
44	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	45 ordinary	det
45	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 set	obj
46	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
47	of	of	ADP	_	48 annihilation	case
48	annihilation	annihilation	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 means	obl
49	at	at	ADP	_	50 defiance	case
50	defiance	defiance	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 annihilation	nmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	46 means	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	past	the vital centre	no heart	centre's body	in the known Norse tale	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient
2	know	participle				well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	present	body	something			tree rules
4	is	gerund					tree rules
5	affect	present	body				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus
6	destroy	present · passive		body			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
7	set	may	centre	all ordinary			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient ordinary=Result
8	mean	present	the vital centre			of annihilation at defiance	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=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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