Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 31

Sometimes, as St. George, he transfixes monsters with his lance; sometimes, as St. Andrew, he smites with his mace a spot given over to witchcraft.

Who acts: wielder · What happens: transfix, smite, give over · To what, where: monsters, spot, witchcraft

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wielder), 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	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	8 transfixes	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Sometimes	punct
3	as	as	ADP	_	5 George	case
4	St.	St.	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 George	nmod:desc
5	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 transfixes	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 George	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 transfixes	nsubj
8	transfixes	transfix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	monsters	monster	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 transfixes	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 lance	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 lance	nmod:poss
12	lance	lance	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 transfixes	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 smites	punct
14	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	21 smites	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sometimes	punct
16	as	as	ADP	_	18 Andrew	case
17	St.	St.	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Andrew	nmod:desc
18	Andrew	Andrew	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 smites	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Andrew	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 smites	nsubj
21	smites	smite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 transfixes	conj
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 mace	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 mace	nmod:poss
24	mace	mace	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 smites	obl
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 spot	det
26	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 smites	obj
27	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 spot	acl
28	over	over	ADP	_	27 given	compound:prt
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 witchcraft	case
30	witchcraft	witchcraft	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 given	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 transfixes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	transfix	present	wielder	monsters		as George St.; with wielder's lance; sometimes property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus monster=Experiencer
2	smite	present	wielder	a spot		as Andrew St.; with wielder's mace; sometimes property	vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent spot=Patient with mace=Instrument
3	give over	participle		a spot not said here	witchcraft		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to witchcraft=Recipient

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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