Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 8, sentence 69
When he rose the third time, she struck him a lounder of the stick; the stick stuck to the dead man, and the hand stuck to the stick, and out they were."
Who acts: Man, sister, daughters · What happens: rise, strike, stick, be · To what, where: Man, stick, hand
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 (Man, sister, daughters), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 rose | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rose | nsubj |
| 3 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 struck | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 5 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 time | amod |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rose | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 rose | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 struck | nsubj |
| 9 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 struck | obj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 lounder | det |
| 12 | lounder | lounder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 struck | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 stick | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 stick | det |
| 15 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lounder | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 stick | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 stick | det |
| 18 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 struck | obl |
| 19 | stuck | stick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 stick | acl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 man | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 man | det |
| 22 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 man | amod |
| 23 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stuck | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 stuck | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 stuck | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 hand | det |
| 27 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 stuck | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | stuck | stick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 struck | parataxis |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 stick | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 stick | det |
| 31 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 stuck | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 were | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 were | cc |
| 34 | out | out | ADP | _ | 36 were | mark |
| 35 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 were | nsubj |
| 36 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 struck | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 struck | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | Man | time | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | strike | past | sister | Man | the stick obl | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent he=Patient lounder=Result | |||
| 3 | stick | participle | the stick not said here | to the dead man | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | stick | participle · passive | the hand | to the stick | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to stick=Co-Patient | ||||
| 5 | be | past | daughters = daughter | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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