Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, sentence 136
In Schott, No. 1 and Vuk Karajich, No. 5, the three sisters are carried off by Dragons, which their subsequently-born brother kills.
Who acts: Dragons, born brother · What happens: carry off, bear, kill · To what, where: three sisters, Schott, Dragons
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 (Dragons, born brother), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 Schott | case |
| 2 | Schott | Schott | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 carried | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 No. | punct |
| 4 | No. | no. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 2 Schott | appos |
| 5 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 No. | flat |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Vuk | cc |
| 7 | Vuk | Vuk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Schott | conj |
| 8 | Karajich | Karajich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Vuk | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 No. | punct |
| 10 | No. | No. | PROPN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 7 Vuk | appos |
| 11 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 No. | flat |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sisters | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sisters | det |
| 14 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 sisters | nummod |
| 15 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 carried | aux:pass |
| 17 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 18 | off | off | ADP | _ | 17 carried | compound:prt |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 Dragons | case |
| 20 | Dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 carried | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 kills | punct |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 kills | obj |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 brother | nmod:poss |
| 24 | subsequently | subsequently | ADV | _ | 26 born | advmod |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 subsequently | punct |
| 26 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 brother | amod |
| 27 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 kills | nsubj |
| 28 | kills | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 Dragons | acl:relcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry off | present · passive | Dragons | the three sisters | Schott and Vuk | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent subject=Value in schott=Location | |||
| 2 | bear | participle | subsequently property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | kill | present | Dragons's born brother | Dragons | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=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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