Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 55

In the fourth year, however, it suddenly becomes desirous of returning to Egypt, and says, "I will leave this celestial sphere."

Who acts: tree · What happens: become, return, say, leave · To what, where: Egypt, celestial sphere · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (tree), 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 year	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 year	det
3	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 year	amod
4	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 becomes	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 year	punct
6	however	however	ADV	_	10 becomes	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 however	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 becomes	nsubj
9	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	10 becomes	advmod
10	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	desirous	desirous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 becomes	xcomp
12	of	of	SCONJ	_	13 returning	mark
13	returning	return	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 desirous	advcl
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 Egypt	case
15	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 returning	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 says	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 says	cc
18	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 becomes	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 leave	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 leave	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 leave	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 leave	aux
23	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 says	ccomp
24	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 sphere	det
25	celestial	celestial	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sphere	compound
26	sphere	sphere	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 leave	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 leave	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 leave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	become	present	tree			year	desirous, however, suddenly property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	return	gerund	tree not said here		Egypt			vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to egypt=Result
3	say speech: assert	present	tree not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	leave in a quote	future	tree	this celestial sphere				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sphere=Theme

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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