Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 133
The nobleman cuts it off, and so rids the village of its fatal visitor.
Who acts: nobleman · What happens: cut off, rid · To what, where: arm, village
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 (nobleman), 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 nobleman | det |
| 2 | nobleman | nobleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cuts | nsubj |
| 3 | cuts | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 cuts | obj |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 cuts | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 rids | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 rids | cc |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 rids | advmod |
| 9 | rids | rid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 cuts | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 village | det |
| 11 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rids | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 visitor | case |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 visitor | nmod:poss |
| 14 | fatal | fatal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 visitor | amod |
| 15 | visitor | visitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 village | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cuts | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut off | present | the nobleman | arm | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector it=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | rid | present | the nobleman not said here | the village of arm's fatal visitor | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent village=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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