Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 40
At last they are rescued by a bull-calf, which succeeds in baffling all the King-Bear's efforts to recover them.
Who acts: bull calf · What happens: rescue, succeed, baffle, recover · To what, where: last, efforts, twins
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 (bull calf), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 rescued | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 rescued | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 rescued | aux:pass |
| 5 | rescued | rescue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 calf | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 calf | det |
| 8 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 calf | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 bull | punct |
| 10 | calf | calf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rescued | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 succeeds | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 succeeds | nsubj |
| 13 | succeeds | succeed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 calf | acl:relcl |
| 14 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 15 baffling | mark |
| 15 | baffling | baffle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 succeeds | advcl |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 efforts | det:predet |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Bear | det |
| 18 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Bear | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 King | punct |
| 20 | Bear | Bear | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 efforts | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 Bear | case |
| 22 | efforts | effort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 baffling | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 recover | mark |
| 24 | recover | recover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 baffling | advcl |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 recover | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rescued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rescue | present · passive | a bull calf | last | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | succeed | present | a bull calf | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | baffle | gerund | a bull calf not said here | the King Bear's efforts | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus effort=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | recover | to-infinitive | a bull calf not said here | twins = twin | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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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