Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 92

In a fourth,[111] in which the hero's three sisters marry three beggars, who turn out to be snakes with twenty, thirty, and forty heads apiece, Koshchei is found in the forbidden chamber, seated on a horse which is chained to a cauldron.

Who acts: three sisters, three beggars · What happens: marry, turn out, be, find, forbid, seat · To what, where: 111, fourth, snakes, Koshchei, forbidden chamber, horse

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 (three sisters, three beggars), 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	_	3 fourth	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 fourth	det
3	fourth	fourth	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 marry	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 fourth	punct
5	[	[	PUNCT	_	6 111	punct
6	111	111	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	15 marry	obl
7	]	]	PUNCT	_	6 111	punct
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 which	case
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 marry	obl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hero	det
11	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sisters	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 hero	case
13	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 sisters	nummod
14	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 marry	nsubj
15	marry	marry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 beggars	nummod
17	beggars	beggar	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 marry	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 turn	punct
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 turn	nsubj
20	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 beggars	acl:relcl
21	out	out	ADP	_	20 turn	compound:prt
22	to	to	PART	_	24 snakes	mark
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 snakes	cop
24	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 turn	xcomp
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 twenty	case
26	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 snakes	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 thirty	punct
28	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 twenty	flat
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 apiece	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 apiece	cc
31	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 heads	nummod
32	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 apiece	nsubj
33	apiece	apiece	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 marry	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 found	punct
35	Koshchei	Koshchei	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 found	nsubj:pass
36	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 found	aux:pass
37	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 apiece	parataxis
38	in	in	ADP	_	41 chamber	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 chamber	det
40	forbidden	forbid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 chamber	amod
41	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 found	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 seated	punct
43	seated	seat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 chamber	acl
44	on	on	ADP	_	46 horse	case
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 horse	det
46	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 seated	obl
47	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	49 chained	nsubj:pass
48	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 chained	aux:pass
49	chained	chain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 horse	acl:relcl
50	to	to	ADP	_	52 cauldron	case
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 cauldron	det
52	cauldron	cauldron	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 chained	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 marry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	marry	present	the hero's three sisters	111	a fourth		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beggar=Patient
2	turn out	present	three beggars				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	to-infinitive	three beggars not said here	snakes		with twenty	tree rules
4	find	present · passive		Koshchei	the forbidden chamber		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
5	forbid	participle					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer
6	seat	participle		the forbidden chamber not said here		on a horse	vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location
7	chain	present · passive		a horse		to a cauldron	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to cauldron=Co-Patient

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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