Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 161

"Why, I've a handkerchief of this kind--when I wave it thrice on the right hand, there springs up a very lofty bridge and the fire cannot reach it."

Who acts: Koshchei, lofty bridge · What happens: wave, spring up, not reach · To what, where: handkerchief

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Koshchei, lofty bridge), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Why	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 've	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 've	nsubj
5	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Why	advcl:relcl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 handkerchief	det
7	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 've	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 kind	case
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 kind	det
10	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 handkerchief	nmod
11	--	--	PUNCT	_	14 wave	punct
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 wave	advmod
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 wave	nsubj
14	wave	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 've	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 wave	obj
16	thrice	thrice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 wave	xcomp
17	on	on	ADP	_	20 hand	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 hand	det
19	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 hand	amod
20	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 thrice	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 springs	punct
22	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	23 springs	expl
23	springs	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Why	conj
24	up	up	ADP	_	23 springs	compound:prt
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 bridge	det
26	very	very	ADV	_	27 lofty	advmod
27	lofty	lofty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 bridge	amod
28	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 reach	nsubj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 fire	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 fire	det
31	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 bridge	conj
32	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 reach	aux
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 reach	advmod
34	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 springs	advcl
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 reach	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Why	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Why	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wave in a quote	present	Koshchei	handkerchief		thrice property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	spring up in a quote	present			there		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not reach in a quote	can	a lofty bridge and the fire	handkerchief			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=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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