Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 97
Finding that Likho intends to eat him, the misfortune-seeker takes to flight.
Who acts: Likho, misfortune seeker · What happens: find, intend, eat, take · To what, where: Likho, flight
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 (Likho, misfortune seeker), 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 | Finding | find | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 takes | csubj |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 4 intends | mark |
| 3 | Likho | Likho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 intends | nsubj |
| 4 | intends | intend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Finding | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 eat | mark |
| 6 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 intends | xcomp |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 eat | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Finding | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 seeker | det |
| 10 | misfortune | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 seeker | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 misfortune | punct |
| 12 | seeker | seeker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 takes | nsubj |
| 13 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 flight | mark |
| 15 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 takes | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 takes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | gerund | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | intend | present | Likho | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | eat not said to happen | to-infinitive | Likho not said here | Likho | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 4 | take | present | the misfortune seeker | flight | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flight=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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