Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 120
He is then killed by his insidious adviser, who usurps his throne, pretending to be the renovated monarch.
Who acts: insidious adviser · What happens: kill, usurp, pretend, renovate, be · To what, where: King, throne, renovated monarch
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, 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 (insidious adviser), 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 | 4 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 killed | aux:pass |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 killed | advmod |
| 4 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 adviser | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 adviser | nmod:poss |
| 7 | insidious | insidious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 adviser | amod |
| 8 | adviser | adviser | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 killed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 usurps | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 usurps | nsubj |
| 11 | usurps | usurp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 adviser | acl:relcl |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 throne | nmod:poss |
| 13 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 usurps | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pretending | punct |
| 15 | pretending | pretend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 usurps | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 monarch | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 monarch | cop |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 monarch | det |
| 19 | renovated | renovate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 monarch | amod |
| 20 | monarch | monarch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pretending | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | present · passive | King's insidious adviser | King | then | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | usurp | present | King's insidious adviser | King's throne | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | pretend | gerund | King's insidious adviser not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | renovate | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | is a | to-infinitive | King's insidious adviser not said here | the renovated monarch | 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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