Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 67
Coming up with him, she slays him with a single blow, but then takes compassion on him, and restores him to life.
Who acts: Queen · What happens: come up, slay, take, restore · To what, where: Prince, compassion, life
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 (Queen), 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 | Coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 slays | advcl |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Coming | compound:prt |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Coming | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Coming | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 slays | nsubj |
| 7 | slays | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 slays | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 blow | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 blow | det |
| 11 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 blow | amod |
| 12 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 slays | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 takes | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 takes | cc |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 takes | advmod |
| 16 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 slays | conj |
| 17 | compassion | compassion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 takes | obj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 takes | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 restores | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 restores | cc |
| 22 | restores | restore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 slays | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 restores | obj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 life | case |
| 25 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 restores | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 slays | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come up | gerund | Queen not said here | with Prince | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | slay | present | Queen | Prince | with a single blow | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with blow=Instrument | |||
| 3 | take | present | Queen not said here | compassion | then | on Prince | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent compassion=Theme on he=Destination | ||
| 4 | restore | present | Queen not said here | Prince | life | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Theme to life=Recipient |
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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