Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 49

A hunter, who had been similarly doomed, went on killing wolves for some time, and hanging up their skins; but when the fatal hour arrived, one of the skins became a wolf, and slew him by whom it had before been slain.

Who acts: hunter, fatal hour, skins, fate · What happens: doom, go, kill, hang up, arrive, become · To what, where: hunter, wolves, skins, one, wolf, slain

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 (hunter, fatal hour, skins, fate), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hunter	det
2	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 doomed	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 doomed	nsubj:pass
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 doomed	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 doomed	aux:pass
7	similarly	similarly	ADV	_	8 doomed	advmod
8	doomed	doom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 hunter	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 hunter	punct
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	on	on	SCONJ	_	12 killing	mark
12	killing	kill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 went	advcl
13	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 killing	obj
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 time	case
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 time	det
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 killing	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 hanging	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 hanging	cc
19	hanging	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 went	advcl
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 hanging	compound:prt
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 skins	nmod:poss
22	skins	skin	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 hanging	obj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 arrived	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 arrived	cc
25	when	when	SCONJ	_	29 arrived	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 hour	det
27	fatal	fatal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 hour	amod
28	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 arrived	nsubj
29	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 went	parataxis
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 one	punct
31	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 arrived	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 skins	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 skins	det
34	skins	skin	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 became	nsubj
35	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 one	acl:relcl
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 wolf	det
37	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 became	xcomp
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 slew	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 slew	cc
40	slew	slay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 arrived	conj
41	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 slew	obj
42	by	by	ADP	_	43 whom	case
43	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 slew	obl
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 had	nsubj
45	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 whom	acl:relcl
46	before	before	ADV	_	48 slain	advmod
47	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	48 slain	cop
48	slain	slain	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 had	obj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	doom	past · perfect · passive		a hunter		similarly property	tree rules
2	go	past	a hunter				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	kill	gerund	a hunter not said here	wolves	time		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Theme
4	hang up	gerund	a hunter not said here	wolves's skins			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient
5	arrive	past	the fatal hour	one			tree rules
6	become	past	the skins	a wolf			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
7	slay	past	the fatal hour not said here	hunter			vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
8	have	past	fate				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
9	is a	participle		slain		before property	tree rules

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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