Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8, sentence 129

The second sister received her brother cordially, and seated him at the oaken table; but the King was left outside, and she loosed greyhounds, and set them at him.

Who acts: second sister, sister · What happens: receive, seat, leave, loose, set · To what, where: brother, fly, oaken table, King, greyhounds

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (second sister, sister), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sister	det
2	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 sister	amod
3	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 received	nsubj
4	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 brother	nmod:poss
6	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 received	obj
7	cordially	cordially	ADV	_	4 received	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 seated	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 seated	cc
10	seated	seat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 received	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 seated	obj
12	at	at	ADP	_	15 table	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 table	det
14	oaken	oaken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 table	amod
15	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 seated	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 left	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 left	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 King	det
19	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 left	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 left	aux:pass
21	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 received	parataxis
22	outside	outside	ADV	_	21 left	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 loosed	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 loosed	cc
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 loosed	nsubj
26	loosed	loose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 left	parataxis
27	greyhounds	greyhound	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 loosed	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 set	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 set	cc
30	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 loosed	conj
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 set	obj
32	at	at	ADP	_	33 him	case
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 set	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 received	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	receive	past	the second sister	sister's brother		cordially property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme
2	seat	past	the second sister not said here	fly	the oaken table		vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Value
3	leave	past · passive		the King		outside property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	loose	past	sister	greyhounds			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent greyhound=Patient
5	set	infinitive	sister not said here	greyhounds = greyhound		at King	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme at he=Destination

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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