Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 139
So violent is the blow that her third breast is driven out of sight and the hunchback is beaten straight.
Who acts: violent blow · What happens: be, drive out, beat · To what, where: violent blow, third breast, sight
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (violent blow), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 violent | advmod |
| 2 | violent | violent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 blow | amod |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 blow | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 blow | det |
| 5 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 beaten | nsubj |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 driven | mark |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 breast | nmod:poss |
| 8 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 breast | amod |
| 9 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 driven | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 driven | aux:pass |
| 11 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 blow | acl |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 sight | case |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 sight | case |
| 14 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 driven | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 hunchback | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hunchback | det |
| 17 | hunchback | hunchback | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sight | conj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 beaten | aux:pass |
| 19 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 20 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 19 beaten | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 beaten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the violent blow | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | drive out | present · passive | the violent blow not said here | blow's third breast | sight and the hunchback | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme sight=Destination | |||
| 3 | beat | present · passive | the violent blow | straight property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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