Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 16

Says the second, "I will become a spring--on the water will float two cups, the one golden, the other of silver; whoever touches one of the cups, him will I drown."

Who acts: I, water, whoever · What happens: say, become, float, touch, drown · To what, where: second, spring, two cups, one · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I, water, whoever), 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	Says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 second	det
3	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 Says	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 become	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 become	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 become	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 become	aux
8	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Says	ccomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 spring	det
10	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 become	xcomp
11	--	--	PUNCT	_	16 float	punct
12	on	on	SCONJ	_	16 float	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 water	det
14	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 float	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 float	aux
16	float	float	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 become	conj
17	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 cups	nummod
18	cups	cup	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 float	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 golden	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 golden	det
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 golden	nummod
22	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 cups	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 other	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 other	det
25	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 golden	conj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 silver	case
27	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 other	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 touches	punct
29	whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 touches	nsubj
30	touches	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Says	parataxis
31	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 touches	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 cups	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 cups	det
34	cups	cup	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 one	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 drown	punct
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 drown	nsubj
37	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 drown	aux
38	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 drown	nsubj
39	drown	drown	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 touches	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	39 drown	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	39 drown	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present		the second	tree rules
2	become in a quote	future	I	a spring	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	float in a quote	future	the water	two cups	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Theme
4	touch in a quote	present	whoever	one of the cups	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Co-Theme
5	drown in a quote	future	water		vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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