Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 11
Frost draws near, intending "to smite her and to freeze her to death."
Who acts: Frost · What happens: draw, intend, smite, freeze · To what, where: Frost · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Frost), 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 | Frost | frost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 draws | nsubj |
| 2 | draws | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | near | near | ADV | _ | 2 draws | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 intending | punct |
| 5 | intending | intend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 draws | advcl |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 smite | punct |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 smite | mark |
| 8 | smite | smite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 intending | ccomp |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 smite | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 freeze | cc |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 freeze | mark |
| 12 | freeze | freeze | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 smite | conj |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 freeze | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 death | case |
| 15 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 freeze | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 smite | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 smite | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | present | Frost | near property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | intend | gerund | Frost not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V that S»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | smite not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Frost not said here | Frost | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | freeze in a quote | to-infinitive | Frost not said here | Frost | to death | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient she=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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