Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 60
At last he is released by his son, who has forced the devil to free him after several adventures--one of them being a fight with the evil spirit in the shape of a three-headed snake.
Who acts: son, one · What happens: release, force, be · To what, where: last, son, fight
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 (son, one), 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 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 released | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 released | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 released | aux:pass |
| 5 | released | release | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 son | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 son | nmod:poss |
| 8 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 released | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 forced | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 forced | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 forced | aux |
| 12 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 son | acl:relcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 devil | det |
| 14 | devil | devil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 forced | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 free | mark |
| 16 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 forced | xcomp |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 free | nsubj |
| 18 | after | after | ADP | _ | 20 adventures | case |
| 19 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 adventures | amod |
| 20 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 forced | obl |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 22 one | punct |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 fight | nsubj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 them | case |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 one | nmod |
| 25 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 fight | cop |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 fight | det |
| 27 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 adventures | acl:relcl |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 spirit | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 spirit | det |
| 30 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 spirit | compound |
| 31 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fight | nmod |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 shape | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 shape | det |
| 34 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 spirit | nmod |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 snake | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 snake | det |
| 37 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 39 headed | nummod |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 three | punct |
| 39 | headed | headed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 snake | amod |
| 40 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 shape | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 released | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | release | present · passive | last's son | last | last | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer subject=Source | |||
| 2 | force | present · perfect · passive | last's son | after several adventures | free property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is a | gerund | one of adventures | a fight | with the evil spirit in the shape of a headed snake | 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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