Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 65
And so the Warlock was thoroughly consumed, and the Soldier collected his ashes and strewed them to the winds.
Who acts: Soldier · What happens: consume, collect, strew · To what, where: Warlock, ashes
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 (Soldier), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 consumed | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 consumed | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Warlock | det |
| 4 | Warlock | Warlock | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 consumed | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 consumed | aux:pass |
| 6 | thoroughly | thoroughly | ADV | _ | 7 consumed | advmod |
| 7 | consumed | consume | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 collected | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 collected | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Soldier | det |
| 11 | Soldier | Soldier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 collected | nsubj |
| 12 | collected | collect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 consumed | parataxis |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 ashes | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 collected | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 strewed | cc |
| 16 | strewed | strew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 collected | conj |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 strewed | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 winds | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 winds | det |
| 20 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 strewed | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 consumed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consume | past · passive | the Warlock | thoroughly property | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset | ||||
| 2 | collect | past | the Soldier | Warlock's ashes | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ash=Theme | ||||
| 3 | strew | past | the Soldier not said here | ashes = ash | to the winds | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=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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