Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 141
All of a sudden Koshchei the Deathless carried off their mother.
Who acts: sudden Koshchei · What happens: carry off · To what, where: mother
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 (sudden Koshchei), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 Koshchei | det |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Koshchei | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Koshchei | det |
| 4 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Koshchei | amod |
| 5 | Koshchei | Koshchei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 carried | nsubj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Deathless | det |
| 7 | Deathless | Deathless | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 carried | nsubj |
| 8 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 carried | compound:prt |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 mother | nmod:poss |
| 11 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 carried | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry off | past | all sudden Koshchei | stories's mother | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/23/141/