Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 89
And so grievously did he punish the heroic steed that it could not hold out any longer, but cried aloud with a human voice--
Who acts: Katoma, steed · What happens: punish, not hold out, cry · To what, where: heroic steed
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Katoma, steed), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 punish | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 punish | advmod |
| 3 | grievously | grievously | ADV | _ | 6 punish | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 punish | aux |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 punish | nsubj |
| 6 | punish | punish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 steed | det |
| 8 | heroic | heroic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 steed | amod |
| 9 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 punish | obj |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 hold | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 hold | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 hold | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 hold | advmod |
| 14 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 punish | advcl |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 hold | compound:prt |
| 16 | any | any | ADV | _ | 17 longer | advmod |
| 17 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 hold | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 cried | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 cried | cc |
| 20 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 punish | conj |
| 21 | aloud | aloud | ADV | _ | 20 cried | advmod |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 voice | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 voice | det |
| 24 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 voice | amod |
| 25 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cried | obl |
| 26 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 6 punish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | punish | past · do-support | Katoma | the heroic steed | grievously property | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steed=Patient | |||
| 2 | not hold out | could | steed | long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | Katoma not said here | with a human voice; aloud property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with voice=Theme |
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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