Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 100

"Jump down from your horse, Prince, and lay your ear close to the earth," said Vasilissa. "

Who acts: Vasilissa · What happens: jump down, lay, say · To what, where: Prince, ear · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vasilissa), 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 Jump	punct
2	Jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 said	ccomp
3	down	down	ADV	_	2 Jump	advmod
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 horse	case
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 horse	nmod:poss
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Jump	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Prince	punct
8	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Jump	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lay	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 lay	cc
11	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Jump	conj
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 ear	nmod:poss
13	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lay	obj
14	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 lay	xcomp
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 earth	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 earth	det
17	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 close	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Jump	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Jump	punct
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	Vasilissa	Vasilissa	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 said	nsubj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	jump down in a quote	infinitive		Prince	from your horse; down property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from horse=Trajectory
2	lay in a quote	infinitive		your ear	close property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Result
3	say speech: assert	past	Vasilissa			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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