Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 20

With this may be compared another Norse tale,[127] in which a _Haugebasse_, or Troll, who has carried off a princess, informs her that he and all his companions will burst asunder when above them passes "the grain of sand that lies under the ninth tongue in the ninth head" of a certain dead dragon.

Who acts: Haugebasse, heart, grain · What happens: compare, carry off, inform, burst, pass, lie · To what, where: this, Haugebasse, princess, Norse tale, asunder, grain · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Haugebasse, heart, grain), 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	With	with	SCONJ	_	5 compared	mark
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 compared	nsubj:pass
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 compared	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 compared	aux:pass
5	compared	compare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	8 tale	det
7	Norse	norse	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tale	amod
8	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 compared	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 127	punct
10	[	[	PUNCT	_	11 127	punct
11	127	127	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 tale	appos
12	]	]	PUNCT	_	11 127	punct
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 which	case
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 informs	obl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 Haugebasse	det
16	_	_	PUNCT	_	17 Haugebasse	punct
17	Haugebasse	Haugebasse	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 informs	nsubj
18	_	_	PUNCT	_	17 Haugebasse	punct
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Troll	punct
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 Troll	cc
21	Troll	Troll	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Haugebasse	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 carried	punct
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 carried	nsubj:pass
24	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 carried	aux
25	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 Haugebasse	parataxis
26	off	off	ADP	_	25 carried	compound:prt
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 princess	det
28	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 carried	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Haugebasse	punct
30	informs	inform	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 tale	parataxis
31	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 informs	obj
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 burst	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 burst	nsubj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 companions	cc
35	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	37 companions	det:predet
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 companions	nmod:poss
37	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 he	conj
38	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 burst	aux
39	burst	burst	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 informs	advcl
40	asunder	asunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 burst	obj
41	when	when	SCONJ	_	44 passes	mark
42	above	above	ADP	_	43 them	case
43	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 passes	obl
44	passes	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 burst	advcl
45	"	"	PUNCT	_	47 grain	punct
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 grain	det
47	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 passes	obl
48	of	of	ADP	_	49 sand	case
49	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 grain	nmod
50	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	51 lies	nsubj
51	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 grain	acl:relcl
52	under	under	ADP	_	55 tongue	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 tongue	det
54	ninth	ninth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 tongue	amod
55	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 lies	obl
56	in	in	ADP	_	59 head	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 head	det
58	ninth	ninth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 head	amod
59	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 tongue	nmod
60	"	"	PUNCT	_	59 head	punct
61	of	of	ADP	_	65 dragon	case
62	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	65 dragon	det
63	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 dragon	amod
64	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 dragon	amod
65	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 head	nmod
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 compared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	compare	may · passive		this				tree rules
2	carry off	present · perfect · passive		a Haugebasse or Troll				vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary princess=Value
3	inform speech: other	present	a Haugebasse or Troll		princess	another Norse tale		vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
4	burst	future	heart	asunder				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location asunder=Theme
5	pass	present	heart not said here	the grain of sand			above Haugebasse	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme above they=Location
6	lie in a quote	present	the grain of sand			the ninth tongue in the ninth head of a certain dead dragon		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tongue=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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