Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 41
At the end of their perilous journey the bull-calf tells the young prince to cut its throat, and burn its carcase.
Who acts: bull calf, twins · What happens: tell, cut, burn, journey · To what, where: young prince, end, throat, carcase · Speech: someone speaks here
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, twins), 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 | _ | 3 end | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 end | det |
| 3 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tells | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 journey | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 journey | nmod:poss |
| 6 | perilous | perilous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 journey | amod |
| 7 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 end | nmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 calf | det |
| 9 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 calf | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 bull | punct |
| 11 | calf | calf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tells | nsubj |
| 12 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 prince | det |
| 14 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 prince | amod |
| 15 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tells | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 cut | mark |
| 17 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 tells | xcomp |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 throat | nmod:poss |
| 19 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cut | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 burn | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 burn | cc |
| 22 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 tells | advcl |
| 23 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 carcase | nmod:poss |
| 24 | carcase | carcase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 burn | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 tells | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | the bull calf | the young prince | at the end of twins's perilous journey | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | cut not said to happen | to-infinitive | the bull calf not said here | calf's throat | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset throat=Product | ||||
| 3 | burn | infinitive | the bull calf not said here | calf's carcase | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent carcase=Theme | ||||
| 4 | journey | twins = twin | nom journey «act 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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