Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 109

Each of them turned her palace into an egg--for they were all enchantresses--and they taught him how to turn the eggs into palaces, and back again, and they handed over the eggs to him.

Who acts: Each, heads · What happens: turn, be, teach, hand · To what, where: palace, egg, Prince, eggs, palaces

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Each, heads), 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	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	4 turned	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Each	nmod
4	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 palace	nmod:poss
6	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turned	obj
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 egg	case
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 egg	det
9	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turned	obl
10	--	--	PUNCT	_	15 enchantresses	punct
11	for	for	ADP	_	15 enchantresses	case
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 enchantresses	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 enchantresses	cop
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 enchantresses	det
15	enchantresses	enchantress	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 egg	conj
16	--	--	PUNCT	_	19 taught	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 taught	cc
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 taught	nsubj
19	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 turned	conj
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 taught	obj
21	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	23 turn	advmod
22	to	to	PART	_	23 turn	mark
23	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 taught	xcomp
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 eggs	det
25	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 turn	obj
26	into	into	ADP	_	27 palaces	case
27	palaces	palace	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 turn	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 back	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 back	cc
30	back	back	ADV	_	19 taught	advmod
31	again	again	ADV	_	30 back	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 handed	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 handed	cc
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 handed	nsubj
35	handed	hand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 turned	conj
36	over	over	ADP	_	38 eggs	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 eggs	det
38	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 handed	obl
39	to	to	ADP	_	40 him	case
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 handed	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	turn	past	Each	sister's palace		a egg and all enchantresses		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent palace=Theme into egg=Trajectory
2	is	past	heads = head				for all enchantresses	tree rules
3	teach speech: other	past	heads = head		Prince			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	turn	to-infinitive	heads = head not said here	the eggs		palaces		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent egg=Theme into palace=Trajectory
5	hand	past	heads = head		Prince	the eggs		vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to he=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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