Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7, sentence 9
After a time, the soldier induces the whole of the fiendish party to enter his knapsack, prevents them from getting out again by signing it with a cross, and then has it thumped on an anvil to his heart's content.
Who acts: soldier, knapsack · What happens: induce, enter, prevent, get out, sign, have · To what, where: whole, knapsack, cards, anvil
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 (soldier, knapsack), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 induces | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 soldier | det |
| 6 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 induces | nsubj |
| 7 | induces | induce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 whole | det |
| 9 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 induces | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 party | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 party | det |
| 12 | fiendish | fiendish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 party | amod |
| 13 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 whole | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 enter | mark |
| 15 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 induces | advcl |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 knapsack | nmod:poss |
| 17 | knapsack | knapsack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 enter | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 prevents | punct |
| 19 | prevents | prevent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 induces | conj |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 prevents | obj |
| 21 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 22 getting | mark |
| 22 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 prevents | advcl |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 getting | compound:prt |
| 24 | again | again | ADV | _ | 22 getting | advmod |
| 25 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 26 signing | mark |
| 26 | signing | sign | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 getting | advcl |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 signing | obj |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 cross | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 cross | det |
| 30 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 signing | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 has | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 has | cc |
| 33 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 34 has | advmod |
| 34 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 induces | conj |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 has | obj |
| 36 | thumped | thump | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 has | xcomp |
| 37 | on | on | ADP | _ | 39 anvil | case |
| 38 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 anvil | det |
| 39 | anvil | anvil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 thumped | obl |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 content | case |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 heart | nmod:poss |
| 42 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 content | nmod:poss |
| 43 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 42 heart | case |
| 44 | content | content | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 anvil | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 induces | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | induce | present | the soldier | the whole | time | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whole=Patient | |||
| 2 | enter | to-infinitive | the soldier not said here | process's knapsack | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme knapsack=Destination | ||||
| 3 | prevent | present | the soldier not said here | cards = card | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer they=Theme | ||||
| 4 | get out | gerund | the soldier not said here | again | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | sign | gerund | the soldier not said here | knapsack | with a cross | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with cross=Theme | |||
| 6 | have | present | the soldier not said here | knapsack | then | tree rules | |||
| 7 | thump | participle | knapsack not said here | a anvil to process's heart's content | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on anvil=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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