Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8, sentence 97
The Eagle dropped the King into a great gulf, so that he sank right up to his neck.
Who acts: Eagle · What happens: drop, sink · To what, where: King, great gulf
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eagle), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Eagle | det |
| 2 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 dropped | nsubj |
| 3 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 King | det |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 dropped | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 gulf | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 gulf | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 gulf | amod |
| 9 | gulf | gulf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dropped | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sank | punct |
| 11 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 14 sank | mark |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 so | fixed |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 sank | nsubj |
| 14 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dropped | advcl |
| 15 | right | right | ADV | _ | 14 sank | advmod |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 neck | case |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 up | fixed |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 neck | nmod:poss |
| 19 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sank | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dropped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | past | the Eagle | the King | a great gulf | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent king=Theme into gulf=Destination | |||
| 2 | sink | past | Eagle | up Eagle's neck; right property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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