Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 27
In a Modern Greek tale the life of a dragon or other baleful being comes to an end simultaneously with the lives of three pigeons which are shut up in an all but inaccessible chamber,[131] or inclosed within a wild boar.
Who acts: life · What happens: come, shut up, inclose · To what, where: 131, Modern Greek tale, three pigeons
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 (life), 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 | _ | 5 tale | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 tale | det |
| 3 | Modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tale | amod |
| 4 | Greek | Greek | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tale | amod |
| 5 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 comes | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 life | det |
| 7 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 comes | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 dragon | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 dragon | det |
| 10 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 life | nmod |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 baleful | cc |
| 12 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 baleful | amod |
| 13 | baleful | baleful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 dragon | conj |
| 14 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 baleful | advcl |
| 15 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 end | case |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 end | det |
| 18 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 comes | obl |
| 19 | simultaneously | simultaneously | ADV | _ | 15 comes | advmod |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 lives | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 lives | det |
| 22 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 comes | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 pigeons | case |
| 24 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 pigeons | nummod |
| 25 | pigeons | pigeon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 lives | nmod |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 shut | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 shut | aux:pass |
| 28 | shut | shut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 pigeons | acl:relcl |
| 29 | up | up | ADP | _ | 28 shut | compound:prt |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 all | case |
| 31 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 all | det |
| 32 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 shut | conj |
| 33 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 35 chamber | cc |
| 34 | inaccessible | inaccessible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 chamber | amod |
| 35 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 all | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 131 | punct |
| 37 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 38 131 | punct |
| 38 | 131 | 131 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 comes | obl |
| 39 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 38 131 | punct |
| 40 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 41 inclosed | cc |
| 41 | inclosed | inclose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 131 | conj |
| 42 | within | within | ADP | _ | 45 boar | case |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 boar | det |
| 44 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 boar | amod |
| 45 | boar | boar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 inclosed | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | the life of a dragon | 131 | a Modern Greek tale | to a end | with the lives of three pigeons; simultaneously property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_Location | |
| 2 | shut up | present · passive | three pigeons | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | inclose | participle | the life of a dragon not said here | within a wild boar | tree rules |
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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