Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 152
A barber, seeing this, kills several monks, but to no purpose.
Who acts: barber · What happens: see, kill · To what, where: this, several monks
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (barber), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 barber | det |
| 2 | barber | barber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kills | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 seeing | punct |
| 4 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 barber | acl |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 seeing | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 barber | punct |
| 7 | kills | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 monks | amod |
| 9 | monks | monk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 kills | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 purpose | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 purpose | cc |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 purpose | case |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 purpose | det |
| 14 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kills | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 kills | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | a barber not said here | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | kill | present | a barber | several monks | to no purpose | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monk=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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