Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 8, sentence 129

[314] _Palitsa_ = a cudgel, etc. In the variant of the story quoted in the preceding section the prince seized Vikhor by the right little finger, _mizinets_.

Who acts: prince, story · What happens: quote, precede, seize, vary · To what, where: story, preceding section, Vikhor

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, story), 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	[	[	PUNCT	_	2 314	punct
2	314	314	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 314	punct
4	_	_	PUNCT	_	5 Palitsa	punct
5	Palitsa	Palitsa	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 314	nmod:unmarked
6	_	_	PUNCT	_	9 cudgel	punct
7	=	=	SYM	_	9 cudgel	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 cudgel	det
9	cudgel	cudgel	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 314	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 etc.	punct
11	etc.	etc.	NOUN	Abbr=Yes Number=Plur	9 cudgel	conj
12	In	in	ADP	_	14 variant	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 variant	det
14	variant	variant	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cudgel	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 story	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 story	det
17	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 variant	nmod
18	quoted	quote	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 story	acl
19	in	in	ADP	_	22 section	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 section	det
21	preceding	precede	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 section	amod
22	section	section	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 quoted	obl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 prince	det
24	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 seized	nsubj
25	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 section	acl:relcl
26	Vikhor	Vikhor	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 seized	obj
27	by	by	ADP	_	31 finger	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 finger	det
29	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 finger	amod
30	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 finger	amod
31	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 seized	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 mizinets	punct
33	_	_	PUNCT	_	34 mizinets	punct
34	mizinets	mizinet	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 variant	conj
35	_	_	PUNCT	_	2 314	punct
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 314	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	quote speech: other	participle		the story not said here	the preceding section		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	precede	gerund					vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
3	seize	past	the prince	Vikhor		by the right little finger	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vikhor=Theme
4	vary		the story				nom variant «event intransitive»: of=agent

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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