Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 35

A captive damsel whose mother they have killed, receives the extracted hearts and hangs them on the tent-pole, where they remain till the following morning.

Who acts: mother, captive damsel, brothers · What happens: kill, receive, extract, hang, remain, follow · To what, where: brothers, extracted hearts, tent pole

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 (mother, captive damsel, brothers), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 damsel	det
2	captive	captive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 damsel	amod
3	damsel	damsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 receives	nsubj
4	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	5 mother	nmod:poss
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 damsel	appos
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 killed	nsubj:pass
7	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 killed	aux
8	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 mother	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 damsel	punct
10	receives	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hearts	det
12	extracted	extract	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 hearts	amod
13	hearts	heart	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 receives	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 hangs	cc
15	hangs	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 receives	conj
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 hangs	obj
17	on	on	ADP	_	21 pole	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 pole	det
19	tent	tent	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 pole	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 tent	punct
21	pole	pole	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hangs	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 remain	punct
23	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	25 remain	advmod
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 remain	nsubj
25	remain	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 pole	acl:relcl
26	till	till	ADP	_	29 morning	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 morning	det
28	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 morning	amod
29	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 remain	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 receives	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	kill	present · perfect · passive	a captive damsel's mother not said here	brothers = brother			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	receive	present	a captive damsel	the extracted hearts			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Theme
3	extract	participle					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	hang	present	a captive damsel not said here	brothers = brother	the tent pole		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme on pole=Destination
5	remain	present	brothers = brother			morning	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	follow	gerund					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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