Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 78
He himself escapes safe and sound, but the hind legs of his horse are caught between the closing cliffs, and smashed to pieces.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: escape, catch, smash · To what, where: hind legs
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 (Prince), 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 escapes | nsubj |
| 2 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 1 He | nmod:unmarked |
| 3 | escapes | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 escapes | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 sound | cc |
| 6 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 safe | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 caught | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 caught | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 legs | det |
| 10 | hind | hind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 legs | amod |
| 11 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 horse | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 horse | nmod:poss |
| 14 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 legs | nmod |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 caught | aux:pass |
| 16 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 escapes | conj |
| 17 | between | between | ADP | _ | 20 cliffs | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 cliffs | det |
| 19 | closing | closing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cliffs | compound |
| 20 | cliffs | cliff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 caught | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 smashed | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 smashed | cc |
| 23 | smashed | smash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 caught | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 pieces | case |
| 25 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 smashed | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 escapes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | escape | present | Prince | safe property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | catch | present · passive | the hind legs of Prince's horse | between the closing cliffs | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | smash | participle | to pieces result | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient to piece=Result |
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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