Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 79

When the proper words are addressed to it, the hut revolves upon its slender supports, so as to turn its back instead of its front to the forest.

Who acts: hut · What happens: address, revolve, turn, support · To what, where: proper words, hut, slender supports, back

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 (hut), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	6 addressed	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 words	det
3	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 words	amod
4	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 addressed	nsubj:pass
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 addressed	aux:pass
6	addressed	address	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 revolves	advcl
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 addressed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 revolves	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hut	det
11	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 revolves	nsubj
12	revolves	revolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 supports	case
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 supports	nmod:poss
15	slender	slender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 supports	amod
16	supports	support	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 revolves	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 turn	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	21 turn	advmod
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 turn	mark
20	to	to	PART	_	21 turn	mark
21	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 revolves	conj
22	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 back	nmod:poss
23	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 turn	obj
24	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	30 forest	case
25	of	of	ADP	_	24 instead	fixed
26	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 forest	nmod:poss
27	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 forest	amod
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 forest	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 forest	det
30	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 turn	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 revolves	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	address	present · passive		the proper words	hut			vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination
2	revolve	present	the hut			hut's slender supports		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme upon support=Trajectory
3	turn	to-infinitive	the hut not said here	hut's back			instead hut's front forest	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent back=Theme
4	support		hut					nom support «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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