Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 140
This he broke in two, and flung one half in front and the other behind him, and the spell was broken along with it.
Who acts: This · What happens: break, fling · To what, where: two, one half, front, spell
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 broke | nsubj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 broke | nsubj |
| 3 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 two | case |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 broke | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 flung | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 flung | cc |
| 8 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 broke | conj |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 half | nummod |
| 10 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 8 flung | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 front | case |
| 12 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flung | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 other | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 other | det |
| 15 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 flung | conj |
| 16 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 other | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 broken | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 broken | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 spell | det |
| 21 | spell | spell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 broken | aux:pass |
| 23 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 broke | parataxis |
| 24 | along | along | ADP | _ | 26 it | case |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 it | case |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 broken | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past | This | two | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in two=Location | ||||
| 2 | fling | past | This not said here | one half | front | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent half=Theme in front=Destination | |||
| 3 | break | past · passive | the spell | along front | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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