Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 9

In one of the descriptions of Koshchei's death, he is said to be killed by a blow on the forehead inflicted by the mysterious egg--that last link in the magic chain by which his life is darkly bound.

Who acts: blow, life, Koshchei · What happens: say, kill, inflict, be, describe, die · To what, where: nature, forehead, darkly bound, death · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (blow, life, Koshchei), 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	_	2 one	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 said	obl
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 descriptions	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 descriptions	det
5	descriptions	description	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 one	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 death	case
7	Koshchei	Koshchei	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 death	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Koshchei	case
9	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 descriptions	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 one	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 said	aux:pass
13	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
14	to	to	PART	_	16 killed	mark
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 killed	aux:pass
16	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 said	xcomp
17	by	by	ADP	_	19 blow	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 blow	det
19	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 killed	obl
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 forehead	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 forehead	det
22	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 blow	nmod
23	inflicted	inflict	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 forehead	acl
24	by	by	ADP	_	27 egg	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 egg	det
26	mysterious	mysterious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 egg	amod
27	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 inflicted	obl
28	--	--	PUNCT	_	31 link	punct
29	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 link	det
30	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 link	amod
31	link	link	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 blow	conj
32	in	in	ADP	_	35 chain	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 chain	det
34	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 chain	compound
35	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 link	nmod
36	by	by	ADP	_	37 which	case
37	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 bound	obl
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 life	nmod:poss
39	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 bound	nsubj
40	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 bound	cop
41	darkly	darkly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 bound	amod
42	bound	bound	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 link	parataxis
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · passive		nature	in one of the descriptions of Koshchei's death	tree rules
2	kill	to-infinitive · passive	a blow on the forehead and that last link in the magic chain			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	inflict	participle		the forehead not said here	by the mysterious egg	tree rules
4	is a	present	nature's life	darkly bound	by that last link in the magic chain	tree rules
5	describe			Koshchei's death		nom description «communication transitive»: of=patient
6	die		Koshchei			nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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