Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 90

In a third version of the story,[110] the hero finds in the forbidden chamber "Koshchei the Deathless, in a cauldron amid flames, boiling in pitch."

Who acts: hero · What happens: find, forbid, boil · To what, where: third version · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (hero), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 version	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 version	det
3	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 version	amod
4	version	version	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 finds	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 story	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 story	det
7	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 version	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 110	punct
9	[	[	PUNCT	_	10 110	punct
10	110	110	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 story	appos
11	]	]	PUNCT	_	10 110	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hero	det
13	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 finds	nsubj
14	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 chamber	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 chamber	det
17	forbidden	forbid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 chamber	amod
18	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 finds	obl
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 Koshchei	punct
20	Koshchei	Koshchei	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 chamber	appos
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Deathless	det
22	Deathless	Deathless	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Koshchei	appos
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 flames	punct
24	in	in	ADP	_	28 flames	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 flames	det
26	cauldron	cauldron	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 amid	compound
27	amid	amid	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 flames	compound
28	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 finds	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 boiling	punct
30	boiling	boil	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 finds	advcl
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 pitch	case
32	pitch	pitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 boiling	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 finds	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 finds	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	find	present	the hero	a third version of the story	in the forbidden chamber	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	forbid	participle				vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer
3	boil in a quote	gerund	the hero not said here		in pitch	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient in pitch=Instrument

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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