Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 31
Eventually the hero seizes the sparrow and wrings its neck, but not before he has obtained from it the charm necessary for the recovery of his missing brothers and a number of other victims of the dragon's cruelty.
Who acts: hero, dragon, missing brothers · What happens: seize, wring, not obtain, recover · To what, where: sparrow, neck, charm, 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, dragon, missing brothers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg22373:1615): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eventually | eventually | ADV | _ | 4 seizes | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hero | det |
| 3 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seizes | nsubj |
| 4 | seizes | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sparrow | det |
| 6 | sparrow | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seizes | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 wrings | cc |
| 8 | wrings | wring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 seizes | conj |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 neck | nmod:poss |
| 10 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wrings | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 obtained | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 obtained | cc |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 obtained | advmod |
| 14 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 17 obtained | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 obtained | nsubj |
| 16 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 obtained | aux |
| 17 | obtained | obtain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 seizes | conj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 obtained | obl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 charm | det |
| 21 | charm | charm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 obtained | obj |
| 22 | necessary | necessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 charm | amod |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 recovery | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 recovery | det |
| 25 | recovery | recovery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 necessary | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 brothers | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 28 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 brothers | amod |
| 29 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 recovery | nmod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 number | cc |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 number | det |
| 32 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 brothers | conj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 victims | case |
| 34 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 victims | amod |
| 35 | victims | victim | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 number | nmod |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 cruelty | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 dragon | det |
| 38 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 cruelty | nmod:poss |
| 39 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 38 dragon | case |
| 40 | cruelty | cruelty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 victims | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seizes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | present | the hero | the sparrow | eventually property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sparrow=Theme | |||
| 2 | wring | present | the hero not said here | hero's neck | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neck=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not obtain | present · perfect | dragon | the charm | hero | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent charm=Theme from it=Source | |||
| 4 | recover | dragon's missing brothers and a number of other victims of the dragon's cruelty | nom recovery «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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