Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 59
In two other stories in the same collection the hero gives chase to a boar of gigantic size.
Who acts: hero · What happens: give · To what, where: chase, boar, two other stories
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 (hero), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 stories | case |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 stories | nummod |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stories | amod |
| 4 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 gives | obl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 collection | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 collection | det |
| 7 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 collection | amod |
| 8 | collection | collection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stories | nmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hero | det |
| 10 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gives | nsubj |
| 11 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | chase | chase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gives | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 boar | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 boar | det |
| 15 | boar | boar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gives | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 size | case |
| 17 | gigantic | gigantic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 size | amod |
| 18 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 boar | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 gives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | the hero | chase | a boar of gigantic size | two other stories in the same collection | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent chase=Theme to boar=Recipient |
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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