Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 89

Fedor eventually finds her, escapes with her on a magic foal which he obtains, thanks to the aid of grateful wolves, bees, and crayfish, and destroys the snake by striking it "on the forehead" with the stone which was destined to be its death.

Who acts: Fedor, magic foal · What happens: find, escape, obtain, destroy, strike, destine · To what, where: Anastasia, crayfish, thanks, snake, Fair, stone

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fedor, magic foal), 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	Fedor	Fedor	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 finds	nsubj
2	eventually	eventually	ADV	_	3 finds	advmod
3	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 finds	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 escapes	punct
6	escapes	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 finds	conj
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 her	case
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 escapes	obl
9	on	on	ADP	_	12 foal	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 foal	det
11	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 foal	amod
12	foal	foal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 escapes	obl
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 obtains	nsubj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 obtains	nsubj
15	obtains	obtain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 foal	acl:relcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 thanks	punct
17	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 obtains	obl
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 aid	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 aid	det
20	aid	aid	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 thanks	nmod
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 wolves	case
22	grateful	grateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 wolves	amod
23	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 aid	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 bees	punct
25	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 wolves	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 crayfish	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 crayfish	cc
28	crayfish	crayfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 escapes	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 destroys	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 destroys	cc
31	destroys	destroy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 finds	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 snake	det
33	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 destroys	obj
34	by	by	SCONJ	_	35 striking	mark
35	striking	strike	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 destroys	advcl
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 striking	obj
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 striking	punct
38	on	on	ADP	_	40 forehead	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 forehead	det
40	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 striking	obl
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	40 forehead	punct
42	with	with	ADP	_	44 stone	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 stone	det
44	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 forehead	nmod
45	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	47 destined	nsubj:pass
46	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 destined	aux:pass
47	destined	destine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 stone	acl:relcl
48	to	to	PART	_	51 death	mark
49	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	51 death	cop
50	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 death	nmod:poss
51	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 destined	advcl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 finds	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	find	present	Fedor	Anastasia	eventually property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic
2	escape	present	Fedor not said here	crayfish	with Anastasia; on a magic foal	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	obtain	present	a magic foal	thanks to the aid of grateful wolves and bees		vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
4	destroy	present	Fedor not said here	the snake		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=Patient
5	strike	gerund	Fedor not said here	Fair	on the forehead with the stone	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent it=Instrument on forehead=Patient
6	destine	past · passive		the stone		tree rules
7	is a	to-infinitive		Fair's death		tree rules

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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