Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 62
In the first of these two stories the lady is the daughter of a Rakshasa, who is invulnerable except in the palm of the left hand, for which reason, our hero, Chandasena has been unable to wound him when in his boar disguise.
Who acts: lady, daughter, Chandasena · What happens: be, wound · To what, where: daughter, hero, boar disguise
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 (lady, daughter, Chandasena), 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 | _ | 3 first | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 first | det |
| 3 | first | first | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 stories | case |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 stories | det |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 stories | nummod |
| 7 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 daughter | obl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lady | det |
| 9 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 daughter | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 daughter | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 daughter | det |
| 12 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 first | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Rakshasa | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 Rakshasa | det |
| 15 | Rakshasa | Rakshasa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 daughter | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 invulnerable | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 invulnerable | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 invulnerable | cop |
| 19 | invulnerable | invulnerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 daughter | conj |
| 20 | except | except | ADP | _ | 23 palm | case |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 palm | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 palm | det |
| 23 | palm | palm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 invulnerable | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 hand | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 hand | det |
| 26 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 hand | amod |
| 27 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 palm | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 reason | punct |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 reason | case |
| 30 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 31 reason | det |
| 31 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 palm | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 hero | punct |
| 33 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 hero | nmod:poss |
| 34 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 palm | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 unable | punct |
| 36 | Chandasena | Chandasena | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 unable | nsubj |
| 37 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 unable | aux |
| 38 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 39 unable | cop |
| 39 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 invulnerable | conj |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 wound | mark |
| 41 | wound | wound | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 unable | xcomp |
| 42 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 wound | obj |
| 43 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 41 wound | advmod |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 47 disguise | case |
| 45 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 disguise | nmod:poss |
| 46 | boar | boar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 disguise | compound |
| 47 | disguise | disguise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 wound | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 first | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the lady | the daughter | of this two stories; of a Rakshasa | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | the daughter | except the palm of the left hand and which reason and our hero; invulnerable property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present · perfect | Chandasena | unable property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | wound | to-infinitive | Chandasena not said here | hero | hero's boar disguise | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
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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