Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7, sentence 8

At the end of that time "Grandfather Satan" himself confronts the soldier, but he receives so tremendous a beating that he flies back howling "to his swamp."

Who acts: process · What happens: confront, receive, fly, howl · To what, where: soldier, end, beating, swamp

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), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 end	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 end	det
3	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 confronts	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 time	case
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 time	det
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 end	nmod
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 Grandfather	punct
8	Grandfather	Grandfather	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 time	appos
9	Satan	Satan	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Grandfather	flat
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 Grandfather	punct
11	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 confronts	nsubj
12	confronts	confront	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 soldier	det
14	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 confronts	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 receives	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 receives	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 receives	nsubj
18	receives	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 confronts	conj
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 tremendous	advmod
20	tremendous	tremendous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 receives	xcomp
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 beating	det
22	beating	beating	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 receives	obj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 flies	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 flies	nsubj
25	flies	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 receives	advcl
26	back	back	ADV	_	27 howling	advmod
27	howling	howl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 flies	advcl
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 howling	punct
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 swamp	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 swamp	nmod:poss
31	swamp	swamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 howling	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 confronts	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 confronts	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	confront	present	process	the soldier		at the end of that time		vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=Theme
2	receive	present	process	a beating			tremendous property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beating=Theme
3	fly	present	process					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	howl	gerund	process not said here		process's swamp			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to swamp=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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