Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 130
In an instant the pictured demigoddess gives him a kick which sends him flying back into his own country.
Who acts: pictured demigoddess, kick, husband · What happens: picture, give, send, fly back · To what, where: kick, husband, instant, own country
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 (pictured demigoddess, kick, 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 instant | case |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 instant | det |
| 3 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gives | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 demigoddess | det |
| 5 | pictured | picture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 demigoddess | amod |
| 6 | demigoddess | demigoddess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gives | nsubj |
| 7 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 gives | iobj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 kick | det |
| 10 | kick | kick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gives | obj |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 sends | nsubj |
| 12 | sends | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 kick | acl:relcl |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 sends | obj |
| 14 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 sends | xcomp |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 flying | advmod |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 country | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 country | nmod:poss |
| 18 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 country | amod |
| 19 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 flying | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 gives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | picture | participle | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | give | present | the pictured demigoddess | a kick | husband | a instant | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient kick=Theme | ||
| 3 | send | present | a kick | husband | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | fly back | gerund | husband not said here | into husband's own country result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into country=Result |
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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