Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 48

A merchant is flying across a river on the back of an eagle, when he drops a magic "snuff-box," which had been entrusted to his charge by that bird, and it disappears beneath the waters.

Who acts: merchant, bird, magic · What happens: fly, drop, entrust, disappear, charge · To what, where: river, magic, snuff box, charge

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 (merchant, bird, magic), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 merchant	det
2	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flying	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 flying	aux
4	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	across	across	ADP	_	7 river	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 river	det
7	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flying	obl
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 back	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 back	det
10	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flying	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 eagle	case
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 eagle	det
13	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 back	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 drops	punct
15	when	when	SCONJ	_	17 drops	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 drops	nsubj
17	drops	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 flying	parataxis
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 magic	det
19	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 drops	obj
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 box	punct
21	snuff	snuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 box	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 snuff	punct
23	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 magic	appos
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 entrusted	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 entrusted	punct
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 entrusted	nsubj:pass
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 entrusted	aux
28	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 entrusted	aux:pass
29	entrusted	entrust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 box	acl:relcl
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 charge	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 charge	nmod:poss
32	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 entrusted	obl
33	by	by	ADP	_	35 bird	case
34	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	35 bird	det
35	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 entrusted	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 disappears	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 disappears	cc
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 disappears	nsubj
39	disappears	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 drops	conj
40	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	42 waters	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 waters	det
42	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 disappears	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 flying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	fly	present · progressive	a merchant			a river	on the back of a eagle	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on back=Location
2	drop	present	merchant	a magic				vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magic=Theme
3	entrust	past · perfect · passive	that bird	snuff box	merchant's charge			vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Theme to charge=Recipient
4	disappear	present	magic				beneath the waters	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	charge		merchant					nom charge «act 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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