Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 87
In this extremity he prayed to the gods to extricate him, and by their favor he made his escape."
Who acts: Trita, brothers · What happens: pray, extricate, make, favor, escape · To what, where: extremity, Trita, escape
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 (Trita, 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 extremity | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 extremity | det |
| 3 | extremity | extremity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 prayed | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 prayed | nsubj |
| 5 | prayed | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 gods | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 gods | det |
| 8 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 prayed | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 extricate | mark |
| 10 | extricate | extricate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 prayed | advcl |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 extricate | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 made | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 made | cc |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 favor | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 favor | nmod:poss |
| 16 | favor | favor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 made | obl |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 made | nsubj |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 prayed | conj |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 escape | nmod:poss |
| 20 | escape | escape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 made | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 made | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pray | past | Trita | this extremity | to the gods | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||
| 2 | extricate | to-infinitive | Trita not said here | Trita | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | past | Trita | Trita's escape | by brothers's favor | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent escape=Product | |||
| 4 | favor | brothers = brother | nom favor «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | escape | Trita | nom escape «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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