Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 71

But he escapes, and eventually "he slays all the three heroes, and flings their bodies on the plain for wild beasts to devour."

Who acts: Ivan · What happens: escape, slay, fling, devour · To what, where: three heroes, bodies, plain

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 (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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 escapes	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 escapes	nsubj
3	escapes	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 slays	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 slays	cc
6	eventually	eventually	ADV	_	9 slays	advmod
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 eventually	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 slays	nsubj
9	slays	slay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 escapes	conj
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 heroes	det:predet
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 heroes	det
12	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 heroes	nummod
13	heroes	hero	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 slays	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 flings	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 flings	cc
16	flings	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 escapes	conj
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 bodies	nmod:poss
18	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 flings	obj
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 plain	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 plain	det
21	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 flings	obl
22	for	for	ADP	_	24 beasts	case
23	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 beasts	amod
24	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 flings	obl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 devour	mark
26	devour	devour	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 flings	advcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 escapes	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 escapes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	escape	present	Ivan				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	slay in a quote	present	Ivan	all three heroes		eventually property	vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hero=Patient
3	fling in a quote	present	Ivan not said here	heroes's bodies	the plain	for wild beasts	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent body=Theme on plain=Destination
4	devour in a quote	to-infinitive	Ivan not said here				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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