Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 11

[123] In another variant[124] Koshchei attempts to deceive his fair captive, pretending that his "death" resides in a besom, or in a fence, both of which she adorns with gold in token of her love.

Who acts: Koshchei, death, fence, hare · What happens: attempt, deceive, pretend, reside, adorn, die · To what, where: 123, fair captive, besom, token

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Koshchei, death, fence, hare), 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	[	[	PUNCT	_	2 123	punct
2	123	123	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 attempts	obl
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 123	punct
4	In	in	ADP	_	6 variant	case
5	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	6 variant	det
6	variant	variant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 123	nmod
7	[	[	PUNCT	_	8 124	punct
8	124	124	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 variant	appos
9	]	]	PUNCT	_	8 124	punct
10	Koshchei	Koshchei	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 attempts	nsubj
11	attempts	attempt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	to	to	PART	_	13 deceive	mark
13	deceive	deceive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 attempts	xcomp
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 captive	nmod:poss
15	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 captive	amod
16	captive	captive	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 deceive	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 pretending	punct
18	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 attempts	advcl
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 resides	mark
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 death	nmod:poss
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 death	punct
22	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 resides	nsubj
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 death	punct
24	resides	reside	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 pretending	advcl
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 besom	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 besom	det
27	besom	besom	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 resides	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 fence	punct
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 fence	cc
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 fence	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 fence	det
32	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 attempts	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 both	punct
34	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	36 which	nsubj
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 which	case
36	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 adorns	nsubj
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 adorns	nsubj
38	adorns	adorn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 fence	acl:relcl
39	with	with	ADP	_	40 gold	case
40	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 adorns	obl
41	in	in	ADP	_	42 token	case
42	token	token	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 adorns	obl
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 love	case
44	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 love	nmod:poss
45	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 token	nmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 attempts	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	attempt	present	Koshchei	123 in another variant			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	deceive not said to happen	to-infinitive	Koshchei not said here	hare's fair captive			vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent captive=Patient
3	pretend	gerund	Koshchei not said here				tree rules
4	reside	present	hare's death		a besom		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in besom=Location
5	adorn	present	a fence		token of death's love	with gold	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with gold=Theme
6	die in a quote		hare				nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent
7	love		death				nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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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