Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 21
The grain of sand is found and brought, and the result is that the whole of the monstrous brood of Trolls or _Haugebasser_ is instantaneously destroyed.
Who acts: result · What happens: find, bring, be, destroy · To what, where: grain, Haugebasser _
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 (result), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 grain | det |
| 2 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 found | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 sand | case |
| 4 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 grain | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 found | aux:pass |
| 6 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 brought | cc |
| 8 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 found | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 whole | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 whole | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 result | det |
| 12 | result | result | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 whole | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 whole | cop |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 whole | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 whole | det |
| 16 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 found | parataxis |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 brood | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 brood | det |
| 19 | monstrous | monstrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 brood | amod |
| 20 | brood | brood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 whole | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Trolls | case |
| 22 | Trolls | troll | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 brood | nmod |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 29 destroyed | cc |
| 24 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 29 destroyed | punct |
| 25 | Haugebasser | Haugebasser | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 _ | compound |
| 26 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 destroyed | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 destroyed | aux:pass |
| 28 | instantaneously | instantaneously | ADV | _ | 29 destroyed | advmod |
| 29 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 brood | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present · passive | the grain of sand | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 2 | bring | participle | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is | present | the result | of the monstrous brood of Trolls; whole property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | destroy | present · passive | Haugebasser _ | instantaneously property | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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