Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 70
He flies into a passion, seizes a hatchet, chops off their heads, and flings them into the fire.
Who acts: corner · What happens: fly, seize, chop off, fling · To what, where: passion, hatchet, heads, brother, fire
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (corner), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 flies | nsubj |
| 2 | flies | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 passion | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 passion | det |
| 5 | passion | passion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 flies | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 seizes | punct |
| 7 | seizes | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 flies | conj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 hatchet | det |
| 9 | hatchet | hatchet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seizes | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 chops | punct |
| 11 | chops | chop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 seizes | conj |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 chops | compound:prt |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 heads | nmod:poss |
| 14 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 chops | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 flings | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 flings | cc |
| 17 | flings | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 flies | conj |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 flings | obj |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 fire | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 fire | det |
| 21 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 flings | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 flies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | present | corner | into a passion result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into passion=Result | ||||
| 2 | seize | present | corner not said here | a hatchet | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hatchet=Theme | ||||
| 3 | chop off | present | corner not said here | brother's heads | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 4 | fling | present | corner not said here | brother | the fire | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme into fire=Destination |
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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