Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 118
Then seeing that Vikhor was perfectly enfeebled, he snatched from him his keen faulchion, and with a single blow struck off his head.
Who acts: Vikhor, single blow · What happens: see, enfeeble, snatch, strike off · To what, where: Vikhor, keen faulchion, head
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 (Vikhor, single blow), 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 | 2 seeing | advmod |
| 2 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 snatched | advcl |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 enfeebled | mark |
| 4 | Vikhor | Vikhor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 enfeebled | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 enfeebled | aux:pass |
| 6 | perfectly | perfectly | ADV | _ | 7 enfeebled | advmod |
| 7 | enfeebled | enfeeble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 seeing | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 seeing | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 snatched | nsubj |
| 10 | snatched | snatch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 snatched | obl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 faulchion | nmod:poss |
| 14 | keen | keen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 faulchion | amod |
| 15 | faulchion | faulchion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 snatched | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 struck | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 struck | cc |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 blow | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 blow | det |
| 20 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 blow | amod |
| 21 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 struck | nsubj |
| 22 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 snatched | conj |
| 23 | off | off | ADP | _ | 22 struck | 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 struck | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 snatched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | Vikhor not said here | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | enfeeble | past · passive | Vikhor | perfectly property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | snatch | past | Vikhor | Vikhor's keen faulchion | from hero | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent faulchion=Theme from he=Source | |||
| 4 | strike off | past | a single blow | Vikhor's head | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
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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