Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 88
He gives it a lift and it gets free from its hook and flies away, carrying off Anastasia the Fair.
Who acts: Snake, Fair · What happens: give, get, fly away, carry off · To what, where: Fair, hook, Anastasia
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 (Snake, Fair), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gives | nsubj |
| 2 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gives | obj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 lift | det |
| 5 | lift | lift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gives | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 gets | cc |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 gets | nsubj |
| 8 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 gives | conj |
| 9 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 gets | xcomp |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 hook | case |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 hook | nmod:poss |
| 12 | hook | hook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gets | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 flies | cc |
| 14 | flies | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 gives | conj |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 flies | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 carrying | punct |
| 17 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 flies | advcl |
| 18 | off | off | ADP | _ | 17 carrying | compound:prt |
| 19 | Anastasia | Anastasia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 carrying | obj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Fair | det |
| 21 | Fair | Fair | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 carrying | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | Snake | Fair | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient lift=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get | present | Fair | Fair's hook | free property | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme from hook=Destination | |||
| 3 | fly away | present | Snake not said here | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | carry off | gerund | Snake not said here | Anastasia | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme anastasia=Beneficiary fair=Value |
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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