Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 16
"The bride and bridegroom must have cuts made in their heels, and some of their own blood must then be poured back into those wounds.
Who acts: bride · What happens: have, make, pour back · To what, where: cuts, heels, some, wounds
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 (bride), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 have | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bride | det |
| 3 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 have | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 bridegroom | cc |
| 5 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bride | conj |
| 6 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 have | aux |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | cuts | cut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 have | obj |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 cuts | acl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 heels | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 heels | nmod:poss |
| 12 | heels | heel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 made | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 poured | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 poured | cc |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 poured | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 blood | case |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 blood | nmod:poss |
| 18 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 blood | amod |
| 19 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 some | nmod |
| 20 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 poured | aux |
| 21 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 poured | advmod |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 poured | aux:pass |
| 23 | poured | pour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 have | parataxis |
| 24 | back | back | ADV | _ | 23 poured | advmod |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 wounds | case |
| 26 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 27 wounds | det |
| 27 | wounds | wound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 poured | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | must | the bride and bridegroom | cuts | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cut=Patient | ||||
| 2 | make in a quote | participle | cuts not said here | bride's heels | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 3 | pour back in a quote | must · passive | some | that wounds | then | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: subject=Theme into wound=Destination |
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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