Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 42

He unwillingly consents, and from its ashes spring a horse, a dog, and an apple-tree, all of which play important parts in the next act of the drama.

Who acts: prince, ashes, all, drama · What happens: consent, spring, play, act · To what, where: apple tree, horse, important parts, next act

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, ashes, all, drama), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 consents	nsubj
2	unwillingly	unwillingly	ADV	_	3 consents	advmod
3	consents	consent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 spring	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 spring	cc
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 ashes	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 ashes	nmod:poss
8	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 spring	nsubj
9	spring	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 consents	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 horse	det
11	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 spring	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 dog	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 dog	det
14	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 horse	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 tree	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 tree	cc
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 tree	det
18	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tree	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 apple	punct
20	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 consents	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 play	punct
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 play	nsubj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 which	case
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 all	nmod
25	play	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 consents	conj
26	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 parts	amod
27	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 play	obj
28	in	in	ADP	_	31 act	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 act	det
30	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 act	amod
31	act	act	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 play	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 drama	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 drama	det
34	drama	drama	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 act	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 consents	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	consent	present	prince	a apple tree		unwillingly property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	spring	present	end's ashes	a horse and a dog			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location horse=Theme
3	play	present	all	important parts	the next act of the drama		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme
4	act		the drama				nom act «communication intransitive»: of=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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