Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 30
When it falls to the ground it breaks in pieces, and out comes the boar.
Who acts: hero · What happens: fall, break, come · To what, where: pieces, boar
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), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 falls | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 falls | nsubj |
| 3 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 breaks | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 ground | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ground | det |
| 6 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 falls | obl |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 breaks | nsubj |
| 8 | breaks | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 pieces | case |
| 10 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 breaks | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 comes | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 comes | cc |
| 13 | out | out | ADV | _ | 14 comes | advmod |
| 14 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 breaks | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 boar | det |
| 16 | boar | boar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 comes | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 breaks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | present | hero | to the ground | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme | ||||
| 2 | break | present | hero | pieces | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in piece=Location | ||||
| 3 | come | present | hero not said here | the boar | out property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location boar=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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