Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 73
In another Russian story,[138] a prince is grievously tormented by a witch who has got hold of his heart, and keeps it perpetually seething in a magic cauldron.
Who acts: witch · What happens: torment, get, keep, seethe, hold · To what, where: prince, Russian story, hold, magic cauldron, heart
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 (witch), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 story | case |
| 2 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 story | det |
| 3 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 story | amod |
| 4 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tormented | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 138 | punct |
| 6 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 7 138 | punct |
| 7 | 138 | 138 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 story | appos |
| 8 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 7 138 | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 prince | det |
| 10 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tormented | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 tormented | aux:pass |
| 12 | grievously | grievously | ADV | _ | 13 tormented | advmod |
| 13 | tormented | torment | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 witch | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 witch | det |
| 16 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tormented | obl |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 got | nsubj |
| 18 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 got | aux |
| 19 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 witch | acl:relcl |
| 20 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 got | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 heart | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 heart | nmod:poss |
| 23 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hold | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 keeps | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 keeps | cc |
| 26 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 tormented | parataxis |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 keeps | obj |
| 28 | perpetually | perpetually | ADV | _ | 29 seething | advmod |
| 29 | seething | seethe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 keeps | advcl |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 cauldron | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 cauldron | det |
| 32 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 cauldron | amod |
| 33 | cauldron | cauldron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 seething | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 tormented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | torment | present · passive | a witch | a prince | another Russian story | grievously property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | ||
| 2 | get | present · perfect | a witch | hold of story's heart | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hold=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | keep | present | hold | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 4 | seethe | gerund | a magic cauldron | perpetually property | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cauldron=Location | ||||
| 5 | hold | story's heart | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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