Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 95
The heroic steed listened to the order and sank to earth scarcely alive.
Who acts: heroic steed · What happens: listen, sink · 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 (heroic 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 steed | det |
| 2 | heroic | heroic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 steed | amod |
| 3 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sank | nsubj |
| 4 | listened | listen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 steed | acl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 order | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 order | det |
| 7 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 listened | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 listened | cc |
| 9 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 earth | case |
| 11 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sank | obl |
| 12 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 13 alive | advmod |
| 13 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 earth | amod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 sank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | participle | the heroic steed not said here | to the order | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to order=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sink | past | the heroic steed | to earth | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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