Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 48

The other princes shoot at it in vain, but the youngest wounds it, and then sets off in pursuit of it, and of the valuable arrow which is fixed in it.

Who acts: other princes, youngest · What happens: shoot, wound, set off, fix, pursue · To what, where: form, pursuit, valuable arrow

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 (other princes, youngest), 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 princes	det
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 princes	amod
3	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 shoot	nsubj
4	shoot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shoot	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 vain	case
8	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 shoot	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 wounds	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 wounds	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 youngest	det
12	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 wounds	nsubj
13	wounds	wound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 shoot	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 wounds	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sets	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sets	cc
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 sets	advmod
18	sets	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 wounds	conj
19	off	off	ADP	_	18 sets	compound:prt
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 pursuit	case
21	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sets	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 it	case
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 pursuit	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 arrow	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 arrow	cc
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 arrow	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 arrow	det
28	valuable	valuable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 arrow	amod
29	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sets	obl
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 fixed	nsubj:pass
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 fixed	aux:pass
32	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 arrow	acl:relcl
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 it	case
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 fixed	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 shoot	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shoot	present	the other princes		form		in vain	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at it=Destination
2	wound	present	the youngest	form				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer
3	set off	present	the youngest not said here		pursuit of form	then	of the valuable arrow	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of arrow=Initial_Location
4	fix	present · passive		the valuable arrow	form			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient
5	pursue			form				nom pursuit «act 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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