Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 95

So in he goes, and finds a huge, blind giant lying within, stretched on a couch of human bones. "

Who acts: evil, huge blind giant · What happens: go, find, lie, stretch · To what, where: huge blind giant, couch

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 (evil, huge blind giant), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 goes	advmod
2	in	in	SCONJ	_	4 goes	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 goes	nsubj
4	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 finds	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 finds	cc
7	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 goes	conj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 giant	det
9	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 giant	amod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 huge	punct
11	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 giant	amod
12	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 finds	obj
13	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 giant	acl
14	within	within	ADP	_	13 lying	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 stretched	punct
16	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 finds	conj
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 couch	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 couch	det
19	couch	couch	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stretched	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 bones	case
21	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 bones	amod
22	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 couch	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 goes	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 goes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	go	present	evil			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	find	present	evil not said here	a huge blind giant		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Topic
3	lie	gerund	a huge blind giant not said here			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	stretch	participle	evil not said here		a couch of human bones	vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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