Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 125

This time Vasilissa turned the horses into a river of honey with _kissel_[147] banks, and changed the Prince into a Drake and herself into a grey duck.

Who acts: Vasilissa · What happens: turn, change · To what, where: horses, river, Prince, Drake

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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turned	obl:unmarked
3	Vasilissa	Vasilissa	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 turned	nsubj
4	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 horses	det
6	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 turned	obj
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 river	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 river	det
9	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turned	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 honey	case
11	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 river	nmod
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 kissel	case
13	_	_	PUNCT	_	14 kissel	punct
14	kissel	kissel	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 honey	nmod
15	_	_	PUNCT	_	17 147	punct
16	[	[	PUNCT	_	17 147	punct
17	147	147	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	19 banks	nummod
18	]	]	PUNCT	_	17 147	punct
19	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 turned	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 changed	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 changed	cc
22	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 turned	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Prince	det
24	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 changed	obj
25	into	into	ADP	_	27 Drake	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 Drake	det
27	Drake	drake	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 changed	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 herself	cc
29	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 Drake	conj
30	into	into	ADP	_	33 duck	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 duck	det
32	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 duck	amod
33	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 changed	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	Vasilissa	the horses		a river of honey with kissel	time		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: agent=Agent horse=Theme bank=Result
2	change	past	Vasilissa not said here	the Prince				into a Drake result; into a grey duck	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent prince=Patient into drake=Result

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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