Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 90
The _Yakshini_ seizes his half-burnt corpse and devours it.
Who acts: Yakshini _ · What happens: seize, burnt, devour · To what, where: burnt corpse, command
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 (Yakshini _), 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 | 4 _ | det |
| 2 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 Yakshini | punct |
| 3 | Yakshini | Yakshini | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 _ | compound |
| 4 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 seizes | nsubj |
| 5 | seizes | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 corpse | nmod:poss |
| 7 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 9 burnt | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 half | punct |
| 9 | burnt | burnt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 corpse | amod |
| 10 | corpse | corpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seizes | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 devours | cc |
| 12 | devours | devour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 seizes | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 devours | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 seizes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | present | the Yakshini _ | _'s burnt corpse | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corpse=Theme | ||||
| 2 | burnt | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | devour | present | the Yakshini _ not said here | command | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/48/90/