Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8, sentence 50

In the Skazkas we find frequent mention of beauteous maidens who usually live beneath the wave, but who can transform themselves into birds and fly wherever they please.

Who acts: we, beauteous maidens · What happens: find, live, transform, fly, mention · To what, where: frequent mention, Skazkas, wave, maidens, beauteous maidens

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 (we, beauteous maidens), 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 Skazkas	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Skazkas	det
3	Skazkas	Skazkas	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 find	obl
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 find	nsubj
5	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	frequent	frequent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 mention	amod
7	mention	mention	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 find	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 maidens	case
9	beauteous	beauteous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 maidens	amod
10	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 mention	nmod
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 live	nsubj
12	usually	usually	ADV	_	13 live	advmod
13	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 maidens	acl:relcl
14	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	16 wave	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 wave	det
16	wave	wave	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 live	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 transform	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 transform	cc
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 transform	nsubj
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 transform	aux
21	transform	transform	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 find	conj
22	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 transform	obj
23	into	into	ADP	_	24 birds	case
24	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 transform	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 fly	cc
26	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 find	conj
27	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	26 fly	advmod
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 please	nsubj
29	please	please	INTJ	_	27 wherever	discourse
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 find	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	present	we	frequent mention of beauteous maidens	the Skazkas		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mention=Topic
2	live	present	beauteous maidens		the wave	usually property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath wave=Location
3	transform	can		maidens = maiden		into birds result	vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient into bird=Result
4	fly	present	we not said here			wherever property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	mention			beauteous maidens			nom mention «communication 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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