Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 20

Presently twelve spoonbills came flying thither, struck the moist earth, turned into fair maidens, and began to bathe.

Who acts: twelve spoonbills · What happens: come, fly, strike, turn, begin, bathe · To what, where: moist earth, fair maidens

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 (twelve spoonbills), 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	Presently	presently	ADV	_	2 twelve	advmod
2	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 spoonbills	nummod
3	spoonbills	spoonbill	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 came	xcomp
6	thither	thither	ADV	_	5 flying	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 struck	punct
8	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 earth	det
10	moist	moist	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 earth	amod
11	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 struck	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 turned	punct
13	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 earth	acl
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 maidens	case
15	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 maidens	amod
16	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 turned	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 began	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 began	cc
19	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 bathe	mark
21	bathe	bathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 began	xcomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	twelve spoonbills				tree rules
2	fly	gerund	twelve spoonbills not said here			thither property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	strike	past	twelve spoonbills not said here	the moist earth			vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earth=Patient
4	turn	participle		the moist earth not said here	fair maidens		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into maiden=Trajectory
5	begin	past	twelve spoonbills not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	bathe	to-infinitive	twelve spoonbills not said here				vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: 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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