Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 13
The heroes seizes the Snake, which takes them to the healing lake, and they are cured.
Who acts: heroes, Snake · What happens: seize, take, cure · To what, where: Snake, heroes, healing lake
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heroes, Snake), 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 | 2 heroes | det |
| 2 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 seizes | nsubj |
| 3 | seizes | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Snake | det |
| 5 | Snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seizes | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 takes | punct |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 takes | nsubj |
| 8 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Snake | acl:relcl |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 takes | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 lake | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 lake | det |
| 12 | healing | healing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lake | compound |
| 13 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 takes | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 cured | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 cured | cc |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 cured | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 cured | aux:pass |
| 18 | cured | cure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 seizes | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seizes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | present | the heroes | the Snake | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | present | the Snake | heroes = hero | the healing lake | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to lake=Destination | |||
| 3 | cure | present · passive | heroes = hero | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Source |
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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