Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 123

And when the Snake's Wife was dead they consumed her with fire, and scattered her ashes to the winds.

Who acts: Wife, Snake · What happens: be, consume, scatter · To what, where: wife, ashes

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wife, Snake), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	8 dead	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 dead	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Snake	det
4	Snake	Snake	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Wife	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Snake	case
6	Wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dead	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 dead	cop
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 consumed	nsubj
10	consumed	consume	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 dead	acl:relcl
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 consumed	obj
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 fire	case
13	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 consumed	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 scattered	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 scattered	cc
16	scattered	scatter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 consumed	conj
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 ashes	nmod:poss
18	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 scattered	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 winds	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 winds	det
21	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 scattered	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 dead	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Snake's Wife		dead property	tree rules
2	consume	past	Snake	wife	with fire	vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Asset
3	scatter	past	Snake not said here	wife's ashes	to the winds	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ash=Theme

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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