Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, sentence 116
He kills his horse at its own request and makes from its hide a rope by which he is lowered into the hole, etc.
Who acts: son, rope, thief · What happens: kill, make, lower, request · To what, where: horse, own request, rope, hide, son, hole
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, rope, thief), 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 kills | nsubj |
| 2 | kills | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 horse | nmod:poss |
| 4 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kills | obj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 request | case |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 request | nmod:poss |
| 7 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 request | amod |
| 8 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kills | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 makes | cc |
| 10 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 kills | conj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 hide | case |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 hide | nmod:poss |
| 13 | hide | hide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 makes | obl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 rope | det |
| 15 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 makes | obj |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 which | case |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 lowered | obl |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 lowered | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 lowered | aux:pass |
| 20 | lowered | lower | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 rope | acl:relcl |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 hole | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 hole | det |
| 23 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lowered | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 etc. | punct |
| 25 | etc. | etc. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Plur | 2 kills | conj |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | present | son | son's horse | thief's own request | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | |||
| 2 | make | present | son not said here | a rope | thief's hide | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset rope=Product from hide=Material | |||
| 3 | lower | present · passive | a rope | son | the hole | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme into hole=Destination | |||
| 4 | request | thief | nom request «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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