Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 92
And afterwards he killed her sister also, and then the old grandmother.
Who acts: Verlioka · What happens: kill · To what, where: sister
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 (Verlioka), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 killed | cc |
| 2 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 4 killed | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 killed | nsubj |
| 4 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 sister | nmod:poss |
| 6 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 killed | obj |
| 7 | also | also | ADV | _ | 4 killed | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 grandmother | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 grandmother | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 grandmother | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 grandmother | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 grandmother | amod |
| 13 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 killed | parataxis |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past | Verlioka | girl's sister | afterwards property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=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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