Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 29
The hero of the story fights the dragon of the lake, and after a long struggle, being invigorated at the critical moment by a kiss which the heroine imprints on his forehead--he flings it high in the air.
Who acts: hero, kiss, dragon · What happens: fight, invigorate, imprint, fling · To what, where: dragon, long struggle, forehead, hero
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 (hero, kiss, dragon), 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 hero | det |
| 2 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fights | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 story | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 story | det |
| 5 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hero | nmod |
| 6 | fights | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dragon | det |
| 8 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fights | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 lake | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 lake | det |
| 11 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dragon | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 struggle | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 struggle | cc |
| 14 | after | after | ADP | _ | 17 struggle | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 struggle | det |
| 16 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 struggle | amod |
| 17 | struggle | struggle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fights | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 invigorated | punct |
| 19 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 invigorated | aux:pass |
| 20 | invigorated | invigorate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 struggle | acl |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 moment | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 moment | det |
| 23 | critical | critical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 moment | amod |
| 24 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 invigorated | obl |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 kiss | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 kiss | det |
| 27 | kiss | kiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 invigorated | obl |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 imprints | nsubj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 imprints | det |
| 30 | heroine | heroine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 imprints | compound |
| 31 | imprints | imprint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 kiss | nmod |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 forehead | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 forehead | nmod:poss |
| 34 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 imprints | nmod |
| 35 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 37 flings | punct |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 flings | nsubj |
| 37 | flings | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 fights | conj |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 flings | obj |
| 39 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 flings | xcomp |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 air | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 air | det |
| 42 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 high | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fights | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | present | the hero of the story | the dragon of the lake | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | invigorate | gerund · passive | a kiss | a long struggle not said here | moment | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | imprint | a kiss | story's forehead | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | fling | present | dragon | hero | high property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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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