Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 133

Then the bird--having taken the _zasyek_ on her back, with the Prince sitting in the middle of it--began to fly.

Who acts: bird, Prince · What happens: take, sit, begin, fly · To what, where: zasyek, back, middle

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 (bird, Prince), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 bird	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bird	det
3	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 began	nsubj
4	--	--	PUNCT	_	6 taken	punct
5	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 taken	aux
6	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 bird	acl:relcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 zasyek	det
8	_	_	PUNCT	_	9 zasyek	punct
9	zasyek	zasyek	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 taken	obj
10	_	_	PUNCT	_	9 zasyek	punct
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 back	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 back	nmod:poss
13	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 zasyek	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sitting	punct
15	with	with	SCONJ	_	18 sitting	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Prince	det
17	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 sitting	nsubj
18	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 taken	conj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 middle	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 middle	det
21	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sitting	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 it	case
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 middle	nmod
24	--	--	PUNCT	_	3 bird	punct
25	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
26	to	to	PART	_	27 fly	mark
27	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 began	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	take	gerund · perfect	the bird not said here	the zasyek	arose's back	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent zasyek=Theme on back=Destination
2	sit	gerund	the Prince		the middle of zasyek	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in middle=Location
3	begin	past	the bird			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	fly	to-infinitive	the bird not said here			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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