Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 54
After a time the beaten hero recovers his senses, "ties up his head with a handkerchief," and sits groaning until his comrades return.
Who acts: beaten hero, comrades · What happens: beat, recover, tie up, sit, groan, return · To what, where: senses, head · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (beaten hero, comrades), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 recovers | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hero | det |
| 5 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 hero | amod |
| 6 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 recovers | nsubj |
| 7 | recovers | recover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 senses | nmod:poss |
| 9 | senses | sens | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 recovers | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ties | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 ties | punct |
| 12 | ties | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 recovers | parataxis |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 ties | compound:prt |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 head | nmod:poss |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ties | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 handkerchief | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 handkerchief | det |
| 18 | handkerchief | handkerchief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ties | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 handkerchief | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 handkerchief | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 sits | cc |
| 22 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 ties | conj |
| 23 | groaning | groan | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 sits | xcomp |
| 24 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 27 return | mark |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 comrades | nmod:poss |
| 26 | comrades | comrade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 return | nsubj |
| 27 | return | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 groaning | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 recovers | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beat | participle | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | recover | present | the beaten hero | rest's senses | time | tree rules | |||
| 3 | tie up in a quote | present | rest's head | with a handkerchief | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent head=Patient with handkerchief=Co-Patient | ||||
| 4 | sit | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | groan | gerund | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | return | present | rest's comrades | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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