Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 91
So the wolf-fiend is obliged to part with his fiddle, and Zachary carries it back to the tailor in triumph.
Who acts: Zachary · What happens: oblige, carry back · To what, where: wolf fiend, fiddle, tailor
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Zachary), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 7 obliged | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fiend | det |
| 3 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fiend | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 wolf | punct |
| 5 | fiend | fiend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 obliged | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 obliged | aux:pass |
| 7 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 part | mark |
| 9 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 obliged | xcomp |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 fiddle | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 fiddle | nmod:poss |
| 12 | fiddle | fiddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 obliged | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 carries | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 carries | cc |
| 15 | Zachary | Zachary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 carries | nsubj |
| 16 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 obliged | parataxis |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 carries | obj |
| 18 | back | back | ADV | _ | 16 carries | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 tailor | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 tailor | det |
| 21 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 carries | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 triumph | case |
| 23 | triumph | triumph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 tailor | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 obliged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | oblige | present · passive | the wolf fiend | with fiend's fiddle | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | carry back | present | Zachary | fiddle | the tailor in triumph | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to tailor=Destination |
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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