Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 96

When he has gnawed his way with these through all obstacles, he first destroys the babes he finds in a house, and then the older inmates.

Who acts: name · What happens: gnaw, destroy, find · To what, where: way, obstacles, babes, house

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 (name), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 gnawed	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gnawed	nsubj
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 gnawed	aux
4	gnawed	gnaw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 destroys	advcl
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 way	nmod:poss
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gnawed	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 these	case
8	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 gnawed	obl
9	through	through	ADP	_	11 obstacles	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 obstacles	det
11	obstacles	obstacle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gnawed	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gnawed	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 destroys	nsubj
14	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	15 destroys	advmod
15	destroys	destroy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 babes	det
17	babes	babe	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 destroys	obj
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 finds	nsubj
19	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 babes	acl:relcl
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 house	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 house	det
22	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 finds	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 inmates	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 inmates	cc
25	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 inmates	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 inmates	det
27	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	28 inmates	amod
28	inmates	inmate	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 babes	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 destroys	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	gnaw	present · perfect	name	name's way	all obstacles	with these	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient
2	destroy	present	name	the babes and the older inmates		first property	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent babe=Patient
3	find	present	name	the babes and the older inmates not said here	a house		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent babe=Topic

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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