Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 95

This Usuinya-bird is a twelve-headed snake," says one of the fair maidens.

Who acts: Usuinya bird · What happens: be, say · To what, where: headed snake, one · 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 (Usuinya bird), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 bird	det
2	Usuinya	Usuinya	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 bird	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Usuinya	punct
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 snake	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 snake	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 snake	det
7	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 headed	nummod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 twelve	punct
9	headed	headed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 snake	amod
10	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 says	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 says	punct
13	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 snake	parataxis
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 says	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 maidens	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 maidens	det
17	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 maidens	amod
18	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 one	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 snake	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	this Usuinya bird	a headed snake					tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	present		one of the fair maidens					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent one=Topic

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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