Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 110
[314] Vikhor will fly about till he is tired, and will then have recourse to what he supposes is the "Strong Water;" this will render him so feeble that the Prince will be able to kill him.
Who acts: 314, Vikhor, recourse, this, Prince · What happens: fly, be, have, suppose, render, kill · To what, where: recourse, Strong Water, Vikhor
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., 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 (314, Vikhor, recourse, this), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 314 | punct |
| 2 | 314 | 314 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 fly | nsubj |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 314 | punct |
| 4 | Vikhor | Vikhor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 314 | nmod:unmarked |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 fly | aux |
| 6 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | about | about | ADV | _ | 6 fly | advmod |
| 8 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 11 tired | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 tired | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 tired | cop |
| 11 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fly | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 have | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 have | cc |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 have | aux |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 have | advmod |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 fly | parataxis |
| 17 | recourse | recourse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 Water | nsubj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 what | case |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 supposes | obj |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 supposes | nsubj |
| 21 | supposes | suppose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 recourse | acl:relcl |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 Water | cop |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Water | det |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 Water | punct |
| 25 | Strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Water | amod |
| 26 | Water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 have | obj |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 render | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 render | punct |
| 29 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 render | nsubj |
| 30 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 render | aux |
| 31 | render | render | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 fly | conj |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 render | obj |
| 33 | so | so | ADV | _ | 34 feeble | advmod |
| 34 | feeble | feeble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 render | xcomp |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 40 able | mark |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Prince | det |
| 37 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 able | nsubj |
| 38 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 able | aux |
| 39 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 40 able | cop |
| 40 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 feeble | advcl |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 kill | mark |
| 42 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 able | xcomp |
| 43 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 kill | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fly | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | future | 314 Vikhor | about property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Vikhor | tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | future | then | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | suppose | present | Vikhor | recourse | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | recourse | the Strong Water | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | render | future | this | Vikhor | feeble property | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 7 | is | future | the Prince | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | kill | to-infinitive | the Prince not said here | Vikhor | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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