Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, sentence 87
He attacks the demon with a magic sword, and soon cuts off his head.
Who acts: Indrasena · What happens: attack, cut off · To what, where: demon, head
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 (Indrasena), 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 attacks | nsubj |
| 2 | attacks | attack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 demon | det |
| 4 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 attacks | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 sword | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 sword | det |
| 7 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sword | amod |
| 8 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 attacks | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cuts | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 cuts | cc |
| 11 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 cuts | advmod |
| 12 | cuts | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 attacks | parataxis |
| 13 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 cuts | compound:prt |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 head | nmod:poss |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cuts | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 attacks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attack | present | Indrasena | the demon | with a magic sword | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent demon=Patient | |||
| 2 | cut off | present | Indrasena's head | soon property | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality |
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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