Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 104

Having got over this difficulty, thanks to the advice of a sparrow which tells her where to look for wood, she is sent to fetch water in a sieve.

Who acts: thanks, advice · What happens: have, get, tell, look, send, fetch · To what, where: difficulty, advice, water, sieve · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (thanks, advice), 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	Having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 sent	advcl
2	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Having	xcomp
3	over	over	ADP	_	5 difficulty	case
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 difficulty	det
5	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 thanks	punct
7	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 difficulty	conj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 advice	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 advice	det
10	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thanks	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 sparrow	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 sparrow	det
13	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 advice	nmod
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 tells	nsubj
15	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 thanks	parataxis
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 tells	iobj
17	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	19 look	advmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 look	mark
19	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 tells	xcomp
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 wood	case
21	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 look	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Having	punct
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 sent	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 sent	aux:pass
25	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
26	to	to	PART	_	27 fetch	mark
27	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 sent	xcomp
28	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fetch	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 sieve	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 sieve	det
31	sieve	sieve	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fetch	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	gerund						tree rules
2	get	participle				this difficulty and thanks to the advice of a sparrow		vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over difficulty=Destination
3	tell speech: assert	present	thanks to the advice of a sparrow		advice			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
4	look not said to happen	to-infinitive	thanks to the advice of a sparrow not said here				for wood	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for wood=Theme
5	send	present · passive		advice				tree rules
6	fetch	to-infinitive	advice not said here	water		a sieve		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme

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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