Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 136
The fiend disappears howling, and leaves his arm behind.
Who acts: fiend · What happens: disappear, howl, leave · To what, where: arm
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 (fiend), 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 fiend | det |
| 2 | fiend | fiend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 disappears | nsubj |
| 3 | disappears | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | howling | howl | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 disappears | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 leaves | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 leaves | cc |
| 7 | leaves | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 disappears | conj |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 arm | nmod:poss |
| 9 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 leaves | obj |
| 10 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 7 leaves | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 disappears | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disappear | present | the fiend | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | howl | gerund | the fiend not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | leave | present | the fiend not said here | fiend's arm | behind property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme |
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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