Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, sentence 6
Koshchei the Deathless, The Stealer of Fair Princesses--his connexion with Punchkin and "the Giant who had no Heart in his Body"--Excursus on Bluebeard's Chamber; 4.
Who acts: connexion · What happens: have · To what, where: Heart, Body
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (connexion), 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 | Koshchei | Koshchei | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Deathless | det |
| 3 | Deathless | Deathless | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Koshchei | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Stealer | punct |
| 5 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Stealer | det |
| 6 | Stealer | stealer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Koshchei | appos |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Princesses | case |
| 8 | Fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Princesses | amod |
| 9 | Princesses | princess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 Stealer | nmod |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 connexion | punct |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 connexion | nmod:poss |
| 12 | connexion | connexion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Koshchei | appos |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 Punchkin | case |
| 14 | Punchkin | Punchkin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 connexion | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Giant | cc |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Giant | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Giant | det |
| 18 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Punchkin | conj |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 had | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 connexion | parataxis |
| 21 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 Heart | det |
| 22 | Heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 had | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 Body | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 Body | nmod:poss |
| 25 | Body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 had | obl |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 had | punct |
| 27 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 28 Excursus | punct |
| 28 | Excursus | Excursus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Koshchei | conj |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 Chamber | case |
| 30 | Bluebeard | Bluebeard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Chamber | nmod:poss |
| 31 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 30 Bluebeard | case |
| 32 | Chamber | Chamber | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Excursus | nmod |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 4 | punct |
| 34 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Koshchei | list |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Koshchei | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | past | Lord's connexion with Punchkin | no Heart | Lord's Body | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=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.
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