Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 26

In the Gaelic story of "The Sea-Maiden,"[130] the "great beast with three heads" which haunts the loch cannot be killed until an egg is broken, which is in the mouth of a trout, which springs out of a crow, which flies out of a hind, which lives on an island in the middle of the loch.

Who acts: great beast, trout, crow, hind · What happens: haunt, not kill, break, be, spring out, fly out · To what, where: loch, egg, mouth, crow, hind, island

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 (great beast, trout, crow, hind), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 story	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 story	det
3	Gaelic	gaelic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 story	amod
4	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	10 Maiden	case
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 Maiden	punct
7	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Maiden	det
8	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Maiden	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 Maiden	punct
10	Maiden	Maiden	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 story	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 story	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 130	punct
13	[	[	PUNCT	_	14 130	punct
14	130	130	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 story	appos
15	]	]	PUNCT	_	14 130	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 beast	det
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 beast	punct
18	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 beast	amod
19	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 130	parataxis
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 heads	case
21	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 heads	nummod
22	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 beast	nmod
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 heads	punct
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 haunts	nsubj
25	haunts	haunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 beast	parataxis
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 loch	det
27	loch	loch	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 killed	nsubj:pass
28	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 killed	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 killed	advmod
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 killed	aux:pass
31	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 haunts	ccomp
32	until	until	SCONJ	_	36 broken	mark
33	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 egg	det
34	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 broken	nsubj:pass
35	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 broken	aux:pass
36	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 killed	advcl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 mouth	punct
38	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 mouth	nsubj
39	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 mouth	cop
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 mouth	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 mouth	det
42	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 broken	obl
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 trout	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 trout	det
45	trout	trout	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 mouth	nmod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 springs	punct
47	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	48 springs	nsubj
48	springs	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 trout	acl:relcl
49	out	out	ADP	_	52 crow	case
50	of	of	ADP	_	52 crow	case
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 crow	det
52	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 springs	obl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 flies	punct
54	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	55 flies	nsubj
55	flies	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	52 crow	acl:relcl
56	out	out	ADP	_	59 hind	case
57	of	of	ADP	_	59 hind	case
58	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	59 hind	det
59	hind	hind	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 flies	obl
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 lives	punct
61	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	62 lives	nsubj
62	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	59 hind	acl:relcl
63	on	on	ADP	_	65 island	case
64	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	65 island	det
65	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 lives	obl
66	in	in	ADP	_	68 middle	case
67	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	68 middle	det
68	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 island	nmod
69	of	of	ADP	_	71 loch	case
70	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	71 loch	det
71	loch	loch	NOUN	Number=Sing	68 middle	nmod
72	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 130	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	haunt	present	the great beast with three heads				tree rules
2	not kill	can · passive		the loch			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	break	present · passive		a egg			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	is	present			the mouth	of a trout	tree rules
5	spring out	present	a trout	a crow			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location crow=Theme
6	fly out	present	a crow	a hind			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hind=Theme
7	live	present	a hind		a island in the middle of the loch		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on island=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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