Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 53
Then she cuts a strip out of his back, eats up the whole of the viands he has prepared for his companions, and disappears.
Who acts: party, rest · What happens: cut, eat up, prepare, disappear · To what, where: strip, back, viands
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (party, rest), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 cuts | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 cuts | nsubj |
| 3 | cuts | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 strip | det |
| 5 | strip | strip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cuts | obj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 back | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 back | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 back | nmod:poss |
| 9 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 strip | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 eats | punct |
| 11 | eats | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 cuts | conj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 eats | compound:prt |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 whole | det |
| 14 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 eats | xcomp |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 viands | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 viands | det |
| 17 | viands | viand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 whole | obl |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 prepared | nsubj |
| 19 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 prepared | aux |
| 20 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 viands | acl:relcl |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 companions | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 companions | nmod:poss |
| 23 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 prepared | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 disappears | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 disappears | cc |
| 26 | disappears | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 cuts | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cuts | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut | present | party | a strip | rest's back | then | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strip=Product | ||
| 2 | eat up | present | party not said here | whole property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | prepare | present · perfect | rest | the viands not said here | for rest's companions | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent viand=Product for companion=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | disappear | present | party not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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