Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 158
Then the "heroic steed" gallops up, sets its hoof upon the bird's wing, and presses it to the ground, so that the shooter is able to bind it with cords, and take it to the king.
Who acts: heroic steed, shooter · What happens: gallop up, set, press, be, bind, take · To what, where: hoof, wing, steed, king
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heroic steed, shooter), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 gallops | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 steed | det |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 steed | punct |
| 4 | heroic | heroic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 steed | amod |
| 5 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gallops | nsubj |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 steed | punct |
| 7 | gallops | gallop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 gallops | compound:prt |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sets | punct |
| 10 | sets | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 gallops | conj |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 hoof | nmod:poss |
| 12 | hoof | hoof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sets | obj |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 17 wing | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bird | det |
| 15 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wing | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 bird | case |
| 17 | wing | wing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sets | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 presses | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 presses | cc |
| 20 | presses | press | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 gallops | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 presses | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 ground | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 ground | det |
| 24 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 presses | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 able | punct |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 31 able | advmod |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 able | mark |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 shooter | det |
| 29 | shooter | shooter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 able | nsubj |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 able | cop |
| 31 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 gallops | conj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 bind | mark |
| 33 | bind | bind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 able | xcomp |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 bind | obj |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 cords | case |
| 36 | cords | cord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 bind | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 take | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 take | cc |
| 39 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 bind | conj |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 take | obj |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 king | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 king | det |
| 43 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 take | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 gallops | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gallop up | present | the heroic steed | then | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | set | present | the heroic steed not said here | steed's hoof | the bird's wing | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent hoof=Theme upon wing=Destination | |||
| 3 | press | present | the heroic steed not said here | steed | to the ground | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 4 | is | present | the shooter | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | bind | to-infinitive | the shooter not said here | steed | with cords | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent it=Patient with cord=Co-Patient | |||
| 6 | take | infinitive | the shooter not said here | steed | the king | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to king=Destination |
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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