Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 93

The grandfather, however, managed to escape with his life, and afterwards, with the help of a drake and other aiders, he wreaked his vengeance on the murderous Verlioka.

Who acts: Verlioka · What happens: manage, escape, wreak, help · To what, where: grandfather, vengeance, murderous Verlioka, drake

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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 grandfather	det
2	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 managed	nsubj:pass
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 grandfather	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	6 managed	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	managed	manage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 escape	mark
8	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 managed	xcomp
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 life	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 life	nmod:poss
11	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 escape	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 afterwards	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 afterwards	cc
14	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	6 managed	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 help	punct
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 help	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 help	det
18	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 managed	parataxis
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 drake	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 drake	det
21	drake	drake	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 help	nmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 aiders	cc
23	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 aiders	amod
24	aiders	aider	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 drake	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 wreaked	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 wreaked	nsubj
27	wreaked	wreak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 managed	parataxis
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 vengeance	nmod:poss
29	vengeance	vengeance	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 wreaked	obj
30	on	on	ADP	_	33 Verlioka	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Verlioka	det
32	murderous	murderous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 Verlioka	amod
33	Verlioka	Verlioka	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 wreaked	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 managed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	manage	participle · passive		the grandfather		afterwards, however property	tree rules
2	escape	to-infinitive				with Verlioka's life	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	wreak	past	Verlioka	Verlioka's vengeance	the murderous Verlioka		tree rules
4	help			a drake and other aiders			nom help «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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