Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 50

There he finds a maiden who tells him she is the daughter of the Rakshasa whom, in the form of a crane, he has wounded.

Who acts: youngest, maiden · What happens: find, tell, be, wound, form · To what, where: form, p., daughter, crane · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngest, maiden), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 finds	expl
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 finds	nsubj
3	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 maiden	det
5	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 daughter	nsubj
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 tells	nsubj
7	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 maiden	acl:relcl
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 tells	iobj
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 tells	iobj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 daughter	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 daughter	det
12	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 finds	ccomp
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 Rakshasa	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Rakshasa	det
15	Rakshasa	Rakshasa	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 daughter	nmod
16	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 Rakshasa	acl:relcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 form	punct
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 form	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 form	det
20	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 finds	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 crane	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 crane	det
23	crane	crane	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 form	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 wounded	punct
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 wounded	nsubj
26	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 wounded	aux
27	wounded	wound	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 finds	parataxis
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 finds	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	present	youngest = young			the form of a crane; there		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	present	a maiden		p.			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient she=Topic
3	is a	present	a maiden	the daughter			of the Rakshasa	tree rules
4	wound	present · perfect	youngest = young					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	form			a crane				nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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