Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 9

In a Ryazan variant of the story,[327] Ivan Dearly-Bought, after his legs have been cut off at the knees, and he has been left in a forest, is found by a giant who has no arms, but who is so fleet that "no post could catch him up."

Who acts: Ivan, post, story · What happens: buy, cut off, leave, find, have, be · To what, where: legs, knees, Ivan, forest, Ryazan variant, arms · Speech: someone speaks here

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, post, story), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 variant	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 variant	det
3	Ryazan	Ryazan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 variant	compound
4	variant	variant	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 found	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 story	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 story	det
7	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 variant	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 327	punct
9	[	[	PUNCT	_	10 327	punct
10	327	327	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 variant	parataxis
11	]	]	PUNCT	_	10 327	punct
12	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Bought	nsubj
13	Dearly	dearly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Bought	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 Dearly	punct
15	Bought	buy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 327	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 cut	punct
17	after	after	SCONJ	_	22 cut	mark
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 legs	nmod:poss
19	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 cut	nsubj:pass
20	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 cut	aux
21	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 cut	aux:pass
22	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 Bought	parataxis
23	off	off	ADP	_	22 cut	compound:prt
24	at	at	ADP	_	26 knees	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 knees	det
26	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 cut	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 left	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 left	cc
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 left	nsubj
30	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 left	aux
31	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 left	aux:pass
32	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 cut	conj
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 forest	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 forest	det
35	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 left	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 variant	punct
37	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 found	aux:pass
38	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
39	by	by	SCONJ	_	41 giant	mark
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 giant	det
41	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 found	xcomp
42	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 has	nsubj
43	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 giant	ccomp
44	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	45 arms	det
45	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 has	obj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 fleet	punct
47	but	but	CCONJ	_	51 fleet	cc
48	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	51 fleet	nsubj
49	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 fleet	cop
50	so	so	ADV	_	51 fleet	advmod
51	fleet	fleet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 found	parataxis
52	that	that	SCONJ	_	57 catch	mark
53	"	"	PUNCT	_	57 catch	punct
54	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	55 post	det
55	post	post	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 catch	nsubj
56	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	57 catch	aux
57	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 fleet	advcl
58	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 catch	obj
59	up	up	ADP	_	57 catch	compound:prt
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	38 found	punct
61	"	"	PUNCT	_	38 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	buy	participle	Ivan				vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	cut off	present · perfect · passive		Ivan's legs	the knees		vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality
3	leave	present · perfect · passive		Ivan	a forest		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in forest=Location
4	find	present · passive			a Ryazan variant of the story	giant property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»
5	have	present		no arms			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient
6	is	present				fleet property	tree rules
7	catch up in a quote	could	no post	Ivan			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
8	vary		the story				nom variant «event intransitive»: of=agent

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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