Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, sentence 88

But the head always grows again, until at last the younger of the ladies gives him a sign to split in half the head he has just chopped off.

Who acts: head, Indrasena · What happens: grow, give, split, chop off · To what, where: sign, Indrasena, 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 (head, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 grows	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 head	det
3	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grows	nsubj
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 grows	advmod
5	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	again	again	ADV	_	5 grows	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 younger	punct
8	until	until	SCONJ	_	12 younger	mark
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 last	case
10	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 younger	obl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 younger	det
12	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 grows	advcl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 ladies	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 ladies	det
15	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 gives	obl
16	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 younger	parataxis
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 gives	iobj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 sign	det
19	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gives	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 split	mark
21	split	split	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 sign	acl
22	in	in	ADP	_	25 head	case
23	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	25 head	det:predet
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 head	det
25	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 split	obl
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 chopped	nsubj
27	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 chopped	aux
28	just	just	ADV	_	29 chopped	advmod
29	chopped	chop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 head	acl:relcl
30	off	off	ADP	_	29 chopped	compound:prt
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 grows	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	the head				again	always property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	give	present		a sign	Indrasena			of the ladies	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient sign=Theme
3	split	to-infinitive		a sign not said here		half head			vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	chop off	present · perfect	Indrasena	half head not said here					vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=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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