Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 103

Then Vasilissa herself lighted down from her good steed, laid herself flat on the earth, and said: "Ah Prince!

Who acts: Vasilissa · What happens: light down, lay, say · To what, where: Vasilissa, good steed, earth · 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 Vasilissa	advmod
2	Vasilissa	Vasilissa	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 laid	nsubj
3	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 Vasilissa	appos
4	lighted	light	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Vasilissa	acl
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 lighted	compound:prt
6	from	from	ADP	_	9 steed	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 steed	nmod:poss
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 steed	amod
9	steed	steed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lighted	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Vasilissa	punct
11	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 laid	obj
13	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 laid	xcomp
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 earth	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 earth	det
16	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 laid	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 said	cc
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 laid	parataxis
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 Prince	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 Prince	punct
22	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	23 Prince	discourse
23	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 said	ccomp
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	light down	participle		Vasilissa not said here	Vasilissa's good steed		vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent from steed=Material
2	lay	past	Vasilissa	Vasilissa	the earth	flat property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent herself=Theme on earth=Destination
3	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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