Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 66
They leap into the water simultaneously, and are all devoured by the terrible man-eater.
Who acts: instances, terrible man eater · What happens: leap, devour · To what, where: water
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 (instances, terrible man eater), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 leap | nsubj |
| 2 | leap | leap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 water | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 water | det |
| 5 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 leap | obl |
| 6 | simultaneously | simultaneously | ADV | _ | 2 leap | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 devoured | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 devoured | cc |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 devoured | aux:pass |
| 10 | all | all | ADV | _ | 11 devoured | advmod |
| 11 | devoured | devour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 leap | conj |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 eater | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 eater | det |
| 14 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 eater | amod |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 eater | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 man | punct |
| 17 | eater | eater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 devoured | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 leap | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leap | present | instances = instance | the water | simultaneously property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into water=Destination | |||
| 2 | devour | present · passive | the terrible man eater | all property | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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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