Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 25
The Raven smote upon the floor and became a brave youth.
Who acts: Raven · What happens: smite, become · To what, where: brave youth
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Raven), 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 Raven | det |
| 2 | Raven | Raven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 smote | nsubj |
| 3 | smote | smite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 6 floor | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 floor | det |
| 6 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 smote | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 became | cc |
| 8 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 smote | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 youth | det |
| 10 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 youth | amod |
| 11 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 became | xcomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 smote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smite | past | the Raven | upon the floor | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | become | past | the Raven not said here | a brave youth | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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