Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 125
The horse kicks him into the water; he sinks deep--and comes up again in his native land.
Who acts: horse, husband · What happens: kick, sink, come up · To what, where: husband, water, native land
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse, husband), 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 horse | det |
| 2 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kicks | nsubj |
| 3 | kicks | kick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 kicks | obj |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 water | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 water | det |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kicks | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 sinks | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 sinks | nsubj |
| 10 | sinks | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 kicks | parataxis |
| 11 | deep | deep | ADV | _ | 10 sinks | advmod |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 comes | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 comes | cc |
| 14 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 sinks | conj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 comes | compound:prt |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 comes | advmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 land | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 land | nmod:poss |
| 19 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 land | amod |
| 20 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 comes | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 kicks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kick | present | the horse | husband | into the water result | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent he=Patient into water=Result | |||
| 2 | sink | present | husband | deep property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | come up | present | husband not said here | husband's native land | again | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in land=Location |
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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