Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 7

But after he has returned home in safety, his mother binds him as if in sport, and the dragon chops off his head and cuts his body to pieces.

Who acts: horse, mother, dragon · What happens: return, bind, chop off, cut · To what, where: safety, horse, head, body

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse, mother, dragon), 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	_	12 binds	cc
2	after	after	SCONJ	_	5 returned	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 returned	nsubj
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 returned	aux
5	returned	return	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 binds	advcl
6	home	home	ADV	_	5 returned	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 safety	case
8	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 returned	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 returned	punct
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mother	nmod:poss
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 binds	nsubj
12	binds	bind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 binds	obj
14	as	as	ADP	_	17 sport	case
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 sport	mark
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 sport	case
17	sport	sport	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 binds	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 chops	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 chops	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 dragon	det
21	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 chops	nsubj
22	chops	chop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 binds	conj
23	off	off	ADP	_	22 chops	compound:prt
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 head	nmod:poss
25	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 chops	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 cuts	cc
27	cuts	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 chops	conj
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 body	nmod:poss
29	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cuts	obj
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 pieces	case
31	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 cuts	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 binds	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	return	present · perfect	horse		safety	home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bind	present	horse's mother	horse		as sport	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
3	chop off	present	the dragon	horse's head			vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
4	cut	present	the dragon not said here	horse's body		to pieces result	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent body=Patient to piece=Result

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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