Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 70
In both stories the boar is described as committing great ravages in the upper world until the hero attacks it.]
Who acts: hero · What happens: describe, commit, attack · To what, where: boar, stories, great ravages, upper world
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 | _ | 3 stories | case |
| 2 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 stories | det |
| 3 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 described | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 boar | det |
| 5 | boar | boar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 described | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 described | aux:pass |
| 7 | described | describe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 committing | mark |
| 9 | committing | commit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 described | advcl |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ravages | amod |
| 11 | ravages | ravage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 committing | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 world | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 world | det |
| 14 | upper | upper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 world | amod |
| 15 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 committing | obl |
| 16 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 19 attacks | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hero | det |
| 18 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 attacks | nsubj |
| 19 | attacks | attack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 committing | advcl |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 attacks | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 described | punct |
| 22 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 7 described | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | describe | present · passive | the boar | both stories | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | commit | gerund | great ravages | the upper world | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ravage=Theme in world=Destination | ||||
| 3 | attack | present | the hero | boar | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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