Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 21

There, fastened with twelve chains, stood a heroic steed which evidently heard the approaching steps of a rider worthy to mount it, and so began to neigh and to struggle, until it broke all twelve of its chains.

Who acts: heroic steed, steed · What happens: fasten, stand, hear, approach, mount, begin · To what, where: heroic steed, steed, twelve, rider

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heroic steed, steed), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 fastened	expl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 fastened	punct
3	fastened	fasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 chains	case
5	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 chains	nummod
6	chains	chain	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fastened	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 stood	punct
8	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fastened	parataxis
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 steed	det
10	heroic	heroic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 steed	amod
11	steed	steed	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stood	obj
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 heard	obj
13	evidently	evidently	ADV	_	14 heard	advmod
14	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 steed	acl:relcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 steps	det
16	approaching	approach	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 steps	amod
17	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 heard	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 rider	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 rider	det
20	rider	rider	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 steps	nmod
21	worthy	worthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 steps	amod
22	to	to	PART	_	23 mount	mark
23	mount	mount	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 worthy	xcomp
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 mount	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 began	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 began	cc
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 began	advmod
28	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 stood	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 neigh	mark
30	neigh	neigh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 began	xcomp
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 struggle	cc
32	to	to	PART	_	33 struggle	mark
33	struggle	struggle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 neigh	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 broke	punct
35	until	until	SCONJ	_	37 broke	mark
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 broke	nsubj
37	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 struggle	ccomp
38	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	39 twelve	det
39	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 broke	obj
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 chains	case
41	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 chains	nmod:poss
42	chains	chain	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 twelve	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fastened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fasten	participle			there	with twelve chains	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with chain=Co-Patient
2	stand	past		a heroic steed			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer steed=Stimulus
3	hear	past		a heroic steed		evidently property	tree rules
4	approach	gerund					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	mount	to-infinitive	a heroic steed not said here	steed			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
6	begin	past					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	neigh	to-infinitive					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	struggle	to-infinitive					tree rules
9	break	past	steed	all twelve of steed's chains			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer twelve=Patient
10	step			a rider			nom step «act transitive»: of=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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