Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 22

The girls finished bathing and came out on the shore: eleven of them put on their shifts, turned into birds, and flew away home.

Who acts: girls, eleven · What happens: finish, bathe, come out, put on, turn, fly away · To what, where: shore, shifts

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 (girls, eleven), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg22373:1798): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 girls	det
2	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 finished	nsubj
3	finished	finish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	bathing	bathe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 finished	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 came	cc
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 finished	conj
7	out	out	ADV	_	6 came	advmod
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 shore	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 shore	det
10	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 put	punct
12	eleven	eleven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 put	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 eleven	nmod
15	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 finished	parataxis
16	on	on	ADP	_	15 put	compound:prt
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 shifts	nmod:poss
18	shifts	shift	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 put	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 turned	punct
20	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 put	conj
21	into	into	ADP	_	22 birds	case
22	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 turned	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 flew	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 flew	cc
25	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 put	conj
26	away	away	ADV	_	25 flew	advmod
27	home	home	ADV	_	25 flew	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 finished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	finish	past	the girls				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	bathe	gerund	the girls not said here				vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come out	past	the girls not said here		the shore	out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
4	put on	past	eleven of girls	girls's shifts			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent shift=Goal
5	turn	past	eleven of girls not said here			into birds result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into bird=Result
6	fly away	past	eleven of girls not said here			away, home property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	shift		girls = girl				nom shift «event transitive»: poss=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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