Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 8, sentence 155
After a long struggle he flings her on the floor and forces her to submit.
Who acts: Siegfried · What happens: fling, submit · To what, where: hand, floor
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 (Siegfried), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 4 struggle | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 struggle | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 struggle | amod |
| 4 | struggle | struggle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 flings | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 flings | nsubj |
| 6 | flings | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 flings | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 floor | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 floor | det |
| 10 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 flings | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 forces | cc |
| 12 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 floor | conj |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 forces | nmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 submit | mark |
| 15 | submit | submit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 flings | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 flings | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fling | present | Siegfried | hand | the floor and forces hand | after a long struggle | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent she=Theme on floor=Destination | ||
| 2 | submit | to-infinitive | Siegfried not said here | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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