Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 62

One day passed, another day passed: at the dawn of the third day he saw a wondrous palace, and by the side of the palace stood an oak, and on the oak sat a falcon bright.

Who acts: day, Thanks · What happens: pass, see, stand, sit · To what, where: One day, wondrous palace, oak, falcon

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 (day, Thanks), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 passed	obl:unmarked
3	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 day	acl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
5	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 passed	nsubj
7	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 dawn	punct
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 dawn	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 dawn	det
11	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 passed	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 day	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 day	det
14	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	15 day	amod
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dawn	nmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 saw	nsubj
17	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 day	acl:relcl
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 palace	det
19	wondrous	wondrous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 palace	amod
20	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 saw	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 stood	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 stood	cc
23	by	by	ADP	_	25 side	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 side	det
25	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 stood	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 palace	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 palace	det
28	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 side	nmod
29	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 passed	conj
30	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 oak	det
31	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 stood	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 sat	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 sat	cc
34	on	on	ADP	_	36 oak	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 oak	det
36	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 sat	obl
37	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 stood	conj
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 falcon	det
39	falcon	falcon	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 sat	obj
40	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 sat	xcomp
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	participle		One day not said here				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pass	past	another day			dawn; day		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see	past	Thanks	a wondrous palace				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer palace=Stimulus
4	stand	past	another day not said here	a oak			by the side of the palace	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent oak=Theme by side=Destination
5	sit	past	another day not said here	a falcon	the oak		bright property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent falcon=Theme on oak=Location

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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