Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 9
This also the demon's daughter does for him, sending to his aid a countless swarm of ants.
Who acts: daughter · What happens: do, send · To what, where: countless swarm, aid
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 (daughter), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 also | nsubj |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 7 does | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 demon | det |
| 4 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 demon | case |
| 6 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 does | nsubj |
| 7 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 does | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sending | punct |
| 11 | sending | send | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 does | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 aid | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 aid | nmod:poss |
| 14 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sending | obl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 swarm | det |
| 16 | countless | countless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 swarm | amod |
| 17 | swarm | swarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sending | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 ants | case |
| 19 | ants | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 swarm | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 does | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | the demon's daughter | for help | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | send | gerund | the demon's daughter not said here | a countless swarm of ants | help's aid | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent swarm=Theme to aid=Destination |
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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