Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 126
What is very remarkable about the operation is, that the stake must be driven through the vampire's body by a single blow.
Who acts: single blow · What happens: be, drive · To what, where: stake, body
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (single blow), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 remarkable | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 remarkable | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 remarkable | advmod |
| 4 | remarkable | remarkable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 operation | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 operation | det |
| 7 | operation | operation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 remarkable | obl |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 remarkable | cop |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 driven | punct |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 driven | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 stake | det |
| 12 | stake | stake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 driven | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 driven | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 driven | aux:pass |
| 15 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 remarkable | conj |
| 16 | through | through | ADP | _ | 20 body | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 vampire | det |
| 18 | vampire | vampire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 body | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 vampire | case |
| 20 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 driven | obl |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 blow | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 blow | det |
| 23 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 blow | amod |
| 24 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 driven | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 remarkable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | about the operation; remarkable property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | drive | must · passive | a single blow | the stake | the vampire's body | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent subject=Theme through body=Trajectory |
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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