Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 71

He is killed, however, by his elder brothers, who "cut him into small pieces," and then take the flask of magic water to their father.

Who acts: elder brothers · What happens: kill, cut, take · To what, where: fence, small pieces, flask, father · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (elder brothers), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 killed	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 killed	aux:pass
3	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 however	punct
5	however	however	ADV	_	3 killed	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 brothers	punct
7	by	by	ADP	_	10 brothers	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 brothers	nmod:poss
9	elder	elder	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 brothers	compound
10	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 killed	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 cut	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 cut	nsubj
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 cut	punct
14	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 brothers	parataxis
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 cut	obj
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 pieces	case
17	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 pieces	amod
18	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 cut	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 cut	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 cut	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 take	cc
22	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 take	advmod
23	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 killed	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 flask	det
25	flask	flask	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 take	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 water	case
27	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 water	amod
28	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 flask	nmod
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 father	case
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 father	nmod:poss
31	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 take	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 killed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	present · passive		fence				however property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	cut in a quote	past	fence's elder brothers	fence		small pieces			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent he=Material into piece=Product
3	take	infinitive		the flask of magic water	Waters's father		then		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent flask=Theme to father=Destination

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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