Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 63

In it she finds a lovely girl who proves to be the Cobra's daughter and who is delighted to hear of her serpent-father's death.

Who acts: snake, lovely girl, daughter, serpent father · What happens: find, prove, be, hear, die · To what, where: lovely girl, diamond, daughter

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 (snake, lovely girl, daughter, serpent father), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 it	case
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 finds	obl
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 finds	nsubj
4	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 girl	det
6	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 girl	amod
7	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 finds	obj
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 proves	nsubj
9	proves	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 girl	acl:relcl
10	to	to	PART	_	15 daughter	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 daughter	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Cobra	det
13	Cobra	Cobra	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 daughter	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 Cobra	case
15	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 proves	ccomp
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 delighted	cc
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 delighted	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 delighted	cop
19	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 daughter	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 hear	mark
21	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 delighted	advcl
22	of	of	ADP	_	28 death	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 father	nmod:poss
24	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 father	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 serpent	punct
26	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 death	nmod:poss
27	's	's	PART	_	26 father	case
28	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hear	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 finds	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	present	snake	a lovely girl	diamond		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Topic
2	prove	present	a lovely girl				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	is a	to-infinitive	a lovely girl not said here	the Cobra's daughter			tree rules
4	is	present	the Cobra's daughter			delighted property	tree rules
5	hear	to-infinitive	the Cobra's daughter not said here			of snake's serpent father's death	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of death=Stimulus
6	die		snake's serpent father				nom death «event intransitive»: 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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