Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 22
Having received it, she cuts off her hair, and lets the murderer drop and be drowned.
Who acts: spirit · What happens: have, receive, cut off, let, drown · To what, where: cup, hair, murderer drop
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 (spirit), 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 | Having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 cuts | advcl |
| 2 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Having | ccomp |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 received | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Having | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 cuts | nsubj |
| 6 | cuts | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 cuts | compound:prt |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 hair | nmod:poss |
| 9 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cuts | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lets | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 lets | cc |
| 12 | lets | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 cuts | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 drop | det |
| 14 | murderer | murderer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 drop | compound |
| 15 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lets | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 drowned | cc |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 drowned | aux:pass |
| 18 | drowned | drown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 lets | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cuts | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | spirit not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | receive | past | spirit not said here | cup | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cut off | present | spirit | spirit's hair | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector hair=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | let | present | spirit not said here | the murderer drop | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drop=Theme | ||||
| 5 | drown | infinitive · passive | spirit not said here | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP» |
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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