Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 74

The hero has killed a Snake in the underground world, and is carrying its head on a lance, when his brothers begin to hoist him up. "

Who acts: brothers · What happens: kill, carry, begin, hoist up · To what, where: hero, underground world, head, lance

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 (brothers), 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	2 hero	det
2	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 killed	nsubj:pass
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 killed	aux
4	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 Snake	det
6	Snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 killed	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 world	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 world	det
9	underground	underground	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 world	amod
10	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 killed	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 carrying	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 carrying	cc
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 carrying	aux
14	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 killed	advcl
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 head	nmod:poss
16	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 carrying	obj
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 lance	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 lance	det
19	lance	lance	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 carrying	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 begin	punct
21	when	when	SCONJ	_	24 begin	mark
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 brothers	nmod:poss
23	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 begin	nsubj
24	begin	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 killed	parataxis
25	to	to	PART	_	26 hoist	mark
26	hoist	hoist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 begin	xcomp
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 hoist	obj
28	up	up	ADP	_	26 hoist	compound:prt
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 begin	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 begin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	kill	present · perfect · passive		the hero	the underground world	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer snake=Result
2	carry	present · progressive		world's head	a lance	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme
3	begin	present	hero's brothers			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	hoist up	to-infinitive	hero's brothers not said here	hero		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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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