Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 19
The slow-witted demon immediately flies home to find out whether he is really dead.
Who acts: witted demon, prince · What happens: fly, find out, be
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 (witted demon, prince), 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 | 5 demon | det |
| 2 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 witted | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 slow | punct |
| 4 | witted | witted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 demon | amod |
| 5 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 flies | nsubj |
| 6 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 7 flies | advmod |
| 7 | flies | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | home | home | ADV | _ | 7 flies | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 find | mark |
| 10 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 flies | xcomp |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 find | compound:prt |
| 12 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 16 dead | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 dead | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 dead | cop |
| 15 | really | really | ADV | _ | 16 dead | advmod |
| 16 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 find | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 flies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | present | the witted demon | home, immediately property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find out | to-infinitive | the witted demon not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | prince | dead property | tree rules |
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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