Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 15
Ivan returns to the palace of the Enchantress Queen who had maimed him, and beats her with red-hot iron bars until he has driven out of her all her magic strength, "leaving her only one woman's strength, and that a very poor one."
Who acts: Ivan, Enchantress Queen · What happens: return, maim, beat, drive out, leave · To what, where: Ivan, princess
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 (Ivan, Enchantress Queen), 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 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 returns | nsubj |
| 2 | returns | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 palace | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 palace | det |
| 5 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 returns | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Queen | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Queen | det |
| 8 | Enchantress | Enchantress | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Queen | compound |
| 9 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 palace | nmod |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 maimed | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 maimed | aux |
| 12 | maimed | maim | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 Queen | acl:relcl |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 maimed | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 beats | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 beats | cc |
| 16 | beats | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 returns | parataxis |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 beats | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 bars | case |
| 19 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 bars | amod |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 red | punct |
| 21 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 bars | amod |
| 22 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bars | compound |
| 23 | bars | bar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 beats | obl |
| 24 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 27 driven | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 driven | nsubj |
| 26 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 driven | aux |
| 27 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 beats | advcl |
| 28 | out | out | ADP | _ | 30 her | case |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 her | case |
| 30 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 driven | obl |
| 31 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 strength | det:predet |
| 32 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 strength | nmod:poss |
| 33 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 strength | amod |
| 34 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 driven | obl:unmarked |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 leaving | punct |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 leaving | punct |
| 37 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 driven | advcl |
| 38 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 leaving | obj |
| 39 | only | only | ADV | _ | 40 one | advmod |
| 40 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 41 woman | nummod |
| 41 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 strength | nmod:poss |
| 42 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 41 woman | case |
| 43 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 leaving | obj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 one | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 one | cc |
| 46 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 50 one | mark |
| 47 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 50 one | det |
| 48 | very | very | ADV | _ | 49 poor | advmod |
| 49 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 one | amod |
| 50 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 returns | parataxis |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 returns | punct |
| 52 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 returns | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | present | Ivan | to the palace of the Enchantress Queen | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | maim | past · perfect | the Enchantress Queen | Ivan | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 3 | beat | present | princess | with red hot iron bars | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent she=Patient with bar=Instrument | ||||
| 4 | drive out | present · perfect | Ivan | princess | princess's magic strength obl:unmarked | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 5 | leave in a quote | gerund | Ivan not said here | princess | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent she=Theme strength=Attribute |
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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