Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 124
The Cossack looked towards the stove--one of the girl's arms had evidently been cut off.
Who acts: Cossack · What happens: look, cut off · To what, where: one
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cossack), 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 Cossack | det |
| 2 | Cossack | cossack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 6 stove | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 stove | det |
| 6 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | obl |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 cut | punct |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 arms | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 girl | det |
| 11 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 arms | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 girl | case |
| 13 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 one | nmod |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 cut | aux |
| 15 | evidently | evidently | ADV | _ | 17 cut | advmod |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 cut | aux:pass |
| 17 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 looked | parataxis |
| 18 | off | off | ADP | _ | 17 cut | compound:prt |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the Cossack | towards the stove | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent towards stove=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cut off | past · perfect · passive | one of the girl's arms | evidently property | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality |
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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