Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 78
[175] In a West-Slavonian story about a wager of this kind, the winner cuts off the loser's nose.
Who acts: winner · What happens: cut off, wager · To what, where: nose, kind
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 (winner), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 175 | punct |
| 2 | 175 | 175 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 175 | punct |
| 4 | In | in | ADP | _ | 9 story | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 story | det |
| 6 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Slavonian | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 West | punct |
| 8 | Slavonian | Slavonian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 story | compound |
| 9 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 175 | nmod |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 wager | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 wager | det |
| 12 | wager | wager | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 story | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 kind | case |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 kind | det |
| 15 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wager | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 cuts | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 winner | det |
| 18 | winner | winner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 cuts | nsubj |
| 19 | cuts | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 175 | parataxis |
| 20 | off | off | ADP | _ | 19 cuts | compound:prt |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 loser | det |
| 22 | loser | loser | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 nose | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 loser | case |
| 24 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 cuts | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 175 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut off | present | the winner | the loser's nose | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector nose=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | wager | this kind | nom wager «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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