Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 70
After several failures, he succeeds in plucking up the rose-tree by the roots, whereupon the enchantress straightway sickens.
Who acts: man, enchantress straightway · What happens: succeed, pluck up, sicken · To what, where: rose tree
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 (man, enchantress straightway), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 failures | case |
| 2 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 failures | amod |
| 3 | failures | failure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 succeeds | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 failures | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 succeeds | nsubj |
| 6 | succeeds | succeed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 8 plucking | mark |
| 8 | plucking | pluck | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 succeeds | advcl |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 plucking | compound:prt |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 tree | det |
| 11 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tree | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 rose | punct |
| 13 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 plucking | obj |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 roots | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 roots | det |
| 16 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 plucking | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sickens | punct |
| 18 | whereupon | whereupon | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 sickens | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 straightway | det |
| 20 | enchantress | enchantress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 straightway | compound |
| 21 | straightway | straightway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sickens | nsubj |
| 22 | sickens | sicken | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 roots | acl:relcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 succeeds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | succeed | present | man | after several failures | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | pluck up | gerund | man not said here | the rose tree | by the roots | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient | |||
| 3 | sicken | present | the enchantress straightway | whereupon property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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