Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 11
He does so, and is pursued by the invited guest, from whom he escapes only by throwing behind him earth, water, thorns, and lastly fire, with all of which he has been provided by his love.
Who acts: help, invited guest, love · What happens: do, pursue, invite, escape, throw, provide · To what, where: lastly fire, earth, help
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (help, invited guest, love), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 does | nsubj |
| 2 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 2 does | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 pursued | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 pursued | cc |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 pursued | aux:pass |
| 7 | pursued | pursue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 does | parataxis |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 guest | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 guest | det |
| 10 | invited | invite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 guest | amod |
| 11 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pursued | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 escapes | punct |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 whom | case |
| 14 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 escapes | obl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 escapes | nsubj |
| 16 | escapes | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 pursued | conj |
| 17 | only | only | ADV | _ | 19 throwing | advmod |
| 18 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 19 throwing | mark |
| 19 | throwing | throw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 escapes | advcl |
| 20 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 throwing | obl |
| 22 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 throwing | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 water | punct |
| 24 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 earth | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 thorns | punct |
| 26 | thorns | thorn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 earth | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 fire | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 fire | cc |
| 29 | lastly | lastly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 fire | amod |
| 30 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 escapes | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 all | punct |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 all | case |
| 33 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 escapes | obj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 which | case |
| 35 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 provided | obl |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 provided | nsubj |
| 37 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 provided | aux |
| 38 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 39 provided | aux:pass |
| 39 | provided | provide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 all | parataxis |
| 40 | by | by | ADP | _ | 42 love | case |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 love | nmod:poss |
| 42 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 provided | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 does | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | help | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | pursue | present · passive | the invited guest | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | invite | participle | vn promote-102 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | escape | present | help | lastly fire | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme all=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | throw | gerund | help not said here | earth and water and thorns | behind help | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent earth=Theme behind he=Destination | |||
| 6 | provide | present · perfect · passive | help's love | help | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Theme | ||||
| 7 | love | help | nom love «feeling transitive»: 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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