Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 45
Then the Frost threatens to freeze the peasant to death, but the Wind comforts him, saying, "I will blow warm, and will not let you be hurt."
Who acts: Frost, Wind, you · What happens: threaten, freeze, comfort, say, blow, not let · To what, where: peasant, dog, you · 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, Wind, you), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 threatens | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Frost | det |
| 3 | Frost | frost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 threatens | nsubj |
| 4 | threatens | threaten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 freeze | mark |
| 6 | freeze | freeze | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 threatens | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 peasant | det |
| 8 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 freeze | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 death | case |
| 10 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 freeze | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 comforts | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 comforts | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Wind | det |
| 14 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 comforts | nsubj |
| 15 | comforts | comfort | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 threatens | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 comforts | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 saying | punct |
| 18 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 comforts | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 blow | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 blow | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 blow | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 blow | aux |
| 23 | blow | blow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 saying | ccomp |
| 24 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 blow | xcomp |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 let | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 let | cc |
| 27 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 let | aux |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 let | advmod |
| 29 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 23 blow | conj |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 let | obj |
| 31 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 hurt | aux:pass |
| 32 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 let | xcomp |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 blow | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 blow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | threaten | present | the Frost | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | freeze not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Frost not said here | the peasant | to death | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient peasant=Result | |||
| 3 | comfort | present | the Wind | dog | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | gerund | the Wind not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | blow in a quote | future | the Wind = wind | warm property | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 6 | not let in a quote | future | the Wind = wind not said here | you | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | hurt in a quote | infinitive · passive | you not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
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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