Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 23
Back again home flies the demon in great distress, anxious to find out whether he has really been wounded to death or not.
Who acts: home · What happens: fly, find out, wound · To what, where: demon, great distress, home
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 (home), 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 | Back | back | ADV | _ | 2 again | advmod |
| 2 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 flies | advmod |
| 3 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flies | nsubj |
| 4 | flies | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 demon | det |
| 6 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flies | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 distress | case |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 distress | amod |
| 9 | distress | distress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flies | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 anxious | punct |
| 11 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 distress | amod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 find | mark |
| 13 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 anxious | xcomp |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 find | compound:prt |
| 15 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 20 wounded | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 wounded | nsubj |
| 17 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 wounded | aux |
| 18 | really | really | ADV | _ | 20 wounded | advmod |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 wounded | aux:pass |
| 20 | wounded | wound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 find | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 death | case |
| 22 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wounded | obl |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 not | cc |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 wounded | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 flies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | present | home | the demon | great distress | again | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent demon=Theme in distress=Location | ||
| 2 | find out | to-infinitive | home not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | wound | present · perfect · passive | home | to death | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
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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