Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 87
The Lord heard this prayer, and ordered his angels to release the rich moujik from the depths of hell.
Who acts: Lord · What happens: hear, order, release · To what, where: prayer, angels, rich moujik, depths
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lord), 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 | 2 Lord | det |
| 2 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 prayer | det |
| 5 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ordered | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 ordered | cc |
| 8 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | parataxis |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 angels | nmod:poss |
| 10 | angels | angel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 ordered | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 release | mark |
| 12 | release | release | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 ordered | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 moujik | det |
| 14 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 moujik | amod |
| 15 | moujik | moujik | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 release | obj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 depths | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 depths | det |
| 18 | depths | depth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 moujik | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 hell | case |
| 20 | hell | hell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 depths | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the Lord | this prayer | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer prayer=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | order | past | Lord's angels | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent angel=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | release not said to happen | to-infinitive | the rich moujik | the depths of hell | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer moujik=Source |
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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