Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 91
He is living!" in order to urge on the tormentors to fresh cruelties.
Who acts: _ · What happens: live, urge · To what, where: tormentors
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (_), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 living | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 living | aux |
| 3 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 living | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 living | punct |
| 6 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 9 urge | mark |
| 7 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 in | fixed |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 urge | mark |
| 9 | urge | urge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 living | advcl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 tormentors | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tormentors | det |
| 12 | tormentors | tormentor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 urge | obl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 cruelties | case |
| 14 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 cruelties | amod |
| 15 | cruelties | cruelty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 urge | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 living | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present · progressive | _ | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | urge in a quote | to-infinitive | _ not said here | the tormentors | to fresh cruelties | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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