Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 115
He smashed the egg, and Koshchei the Deathless died.
Who acts: world, Koshchei · What happens: smash, die · To what, where: egg
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (world, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 smashed | nsubj |
| 2 | smashed | smash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 egg | det |
| 4 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 smashed | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 died | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 died | cc |
| 7 | Koshchei | Koshchei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 died | nsubj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Deathless | det |
| 9 | Deathless | Deathless | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Koshchei | flat |
| 10 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 smashed | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 smashed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smash | past | world | the egg | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Theme | ||||
| 2 | die | past | Koshchei | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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/pg22373/24/115/