Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 63

She instructs Chandasena how to kill her father, who accordingly falls a victim to a well-aimed shaft.

Who acts: Chandasena, father · What happens: instruct, kill, fall, aim · To what, where: Chandasena, father, victim

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 (Chandasena, father), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 instructs	nsubj
2	instructs	instruct	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Chandasena	Chandasena	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 instructs	obj
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 kill	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 kill	mark
6	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 instructs	advcl
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 father	nmod:poss
8	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kill	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 falls	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 falls	nsubj
11	accordingly	accordingly	ADV	_	12 falls	advmod
12	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 father	acl:relcl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 victim	det
14	victim	victim	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 falls	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	20 shaft	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 shaft	det
17	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 aimed	advmod
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 well	punct
19	aimed	aim	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 shaft	amod
20	shaft	shaft	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 falls	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 instructs	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	instruct speech: other	present	Chandasena		Chandasena		vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent chandasena=Recipient
2	kill	to-infinitive	Chandasena not said here	Chandasena's father			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Theme
3	fall	present	Chandasena's father	a victim		to a aimed shaft result; accordingly property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient victim=Extent to shaft=Result
4	aim	participle				well property	vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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