Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 99
Those youths arise, stick the heads of their brides on iron spikes all round the house, and gallop away.
Who acts: youths · What happens: arise, stick, gallop away · To what, where: heads
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 (youths), 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 | Those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 youths | det |
| 2 | youths | youth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 arise | nsubj |
| 3 | arise | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 stick | punct |
| 5 | stick | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 arise | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 heads | det |
| 7 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stick | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 brides | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 brides | nmod:poss |
| 10 | brides | bride | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 heads | nmod |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 spikes | case |
| 12 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 spikes | compound |
| 13 | spikes | spike | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 brides | nmod |
| 14 | all | all | ADV | _ | 17 house | advmod |
| 15 | round | round | ADP | _ | 17 house | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 house | det |
| 17 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 spikes | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 gallop | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 gallop | cc |
| 20 | gallop | gallop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 arise | conj |
| 21 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 gallop | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 arise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise | present | that youths | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | stick | present | that youths not said here | the heads of eggs's brides on iron spikes round the house | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||||
| 3 | gallop away | infinitive | that youths not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «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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