Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 89
Out of the head of the doomed man grows a horn; he loses all command over himself, leaps up, and dances into the flames.
Who acts: vampire · What happens: doom, grow, lose, leap up, dance · To what, where: horn, head, command, flames
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 (vampire), 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 | Out | out | ADP | _ | 4 head | case |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 head | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 head | det |
| 4 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 grows | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 man | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 7 | doomed | doom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 head | nmod |
| 9 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 horn | det |
| 11 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 grows | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 loses | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 loses | nsubj |
| 14 | loses | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 grows | parataxis |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 command | det |
| 16 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 loses | obj |
| 17 | over | over | ADP | _ | 18 himself | case |
| 18 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 loses | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 leaps | punct |
| 20 | leaps | leap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 loses | conj |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 leaps | compound:prt |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 dances | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 dances | cc |
| 24 | dances | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 grows | conj |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 flames | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 flames | det |
| 27 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 dances | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 grows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | doom | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | grow | present | a horn | the head of the doomed man | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location horn=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lose | present | vampire | all command | over vampire | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent command=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | leap up | present | vampire not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | dance | present | the flames | vn waltz-51.5 «NP V PP.trajectory PP.goal»: agent=Theme into flame=Trajectory |
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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