Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 69
She lifts her head and opens her mouth, whereupon he seizes the sword and cuts her head off.
Who acts: advice, Ivan · What happens: lift, open, seize, cut off · To what, where: head, mouth, sword
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 (advice, Ivan), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lifts | nsubj |
| 2 | lifts | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 head | nmod:poss |
| 4 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lifts | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 opens | cc |
| 6 | opens | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 lifts | conj |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 8 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 opens | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 seizes | punct |
| 10 | whereupon | whereupon | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 seizes | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 seizes | nsubj |
| 12 | seizes | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 lifts | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sword | det |
| 14 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 seizes | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 cuts | cc |
| 16 | cuts | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 seizes | conj |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 head | nmod:poss |
| 18 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cuts | obj |
| 19 | off | off | ADP | _ | 16 cuts | compound:prt |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lifts | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift | present | advice | advice's head | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||||
| 2 | open | present | advice not said here | advice's mouth | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme | ||||
| 3 | seize | present | Ivan | the sword | whereupon property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | |||
| 4 | cut off | present | Ivan not said here | advice's head | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality |
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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