Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 54
Finding him dead, he searches for his heart, but searches in vain for three years.
Who acts: Anepou · What happens: find, search · To what, where: Anepou
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 (Anepou), 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 | Finding | find | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 searches | csubj |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Finding | obj |
| 3 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Finding | xcomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Finding | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 searches | nsubj |
| 6 | searches | search | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 heart | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 heart | nmod:poss |
| 9 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 searches | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 searches | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 searches | cc |
| 12 | searches | search | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 searches | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 vain | case |
| 14 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 searches | nmod |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 years | case |
| 16 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 years | nummod |
| 17 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 vain | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 searches | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | gerund | Anepou | dead property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | ||||
| 2 | search | present | Anepou | for Anepou's heart | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for heart=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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