Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 154

She at first sends her warriors to capture or slay the unwelcome visitors, but Nikita attacks them with his mace, and leaves scarce one alive.

Who acts: Helena, Nikita · What happens: send, capture, slay, attack, leave · To what, where: warriors, unwelcome visitors, visitors, scarce one

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 (Helena, Nikita), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sends	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 first	case
3	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 sends	obl
4	sends	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 warriors	nmod:poss
6	warriors	warrior	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sends	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 capture	mark
8	capture	capture	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sends	advcl
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 slay	cc
10	slay	slay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 capture	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 visitors	det
12	unwelcome	unwelcome	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 visitors	compound
13	visitors	visitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 slay	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 attacks	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 attacks	cc
16	Nikita	Nikita	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 attacks	nsubj
17	attacks	attack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sends	conj
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 attacks	obj
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 mace	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 mace	nmod:poss
21	mace	mace	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 attacks	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 leaves	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 leaves	cc
24	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sends	conj
25	scarce	scarce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 one	amod
26	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 leaves	obj
27	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 leaves	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sends	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	send	present	Helena	Helena's warriors		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warrior=Theme
2	capture	to-infinitive	Helena not said here			vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	slay	infinitive	Helena not said here	the unwelcome visitors		vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visitor=Patient
4	attack	present	Nikita	visitors = visitor	with Nikita's mace	vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
5	leave	present	Helena not said here	scarce one	alive property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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