Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7, sentence 10
Afterwards he carries it about on his back, the fiends remaining under it all the while.
Who acts: process, fiends · What happens: carry, remain · To what, where: whole, back
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (process, fiends), 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 | Afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 3 carries | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 carries | nsubj |
| 3 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 carries | obj |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 3 carries | advmod |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 back | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 back | nmod:poss |
| 8 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carries | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fiends | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fiends | det |
| 11 | fiends | fiend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 back | appos |
| 12 | remaining | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 fiends | acl |
| 13 | under | under | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 remaining | obl |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 while | det:predet |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 while | det |
| 17 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 remaining | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 carries | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | present | process | whole | process's back | about, afterwards property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||
| 2 | remain | gerund | the fiends not said here | whole | while | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under it=Location |
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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