Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 101

A magic, bridge-creating kerchief, however, enables the fugitives to escape from their irritated mother-in-law.

Who acts: magic, fugitives · What happens: create, enable, escape, irritate · To what, where: kerchief, fugitives

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magic, fugitives), 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 magic	det
2	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 enables	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 creating	punct
4	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 creating	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 bridge	punct
6	creating	create	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 magic	acl
7	kerchief	kerchief	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 creating	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 magic	punct
9	however	however	ADV	_	11 enables	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 however	punct
11	enables	enable	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 fugitives	det
13	fugitives	fugitive	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 enables	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 escape	mark
15	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 enables	xcomp
16	from	from	ADP	_	19 mother	case
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 mother	nmod:poss
18	irritated	irritate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 mother	amod
19	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 escape	obl
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 law	punct
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 law	case
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 in	punct
23	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 mother	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 enables	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	create	gerund	a magic not said here	kerchief		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kerchief=Result
2	enable	present	a magic	the fugitives	however property	tree rules
3	escape	to-infinitive	the fugitives not said here		from fugitives's irritated mother in law	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from mother=Initial_Location
4	irritate	participle				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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