Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 105

Again the sparrow comes to her rescue telling her to line the sieve with clay.

Who acts: sparrow, rescue · What happens: come, tell, line, rescue · To what, where: rescue, sparrow, 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 (sparrow, rescue), 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	Again	again	ADV	_	4 comes	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sparrow	det
3	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 comes	nsubj
4	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 rescue	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 rescue	nmod:poss
7	rescue	rescue	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 comes	obl
8	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 rescue	acl
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 telling	iobj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 line	mark
11	line	line	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 telling	xcomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sieve	det
13	sieve	sieve	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 line	obj
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 clay	case
15	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 line	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 comes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	the sparrow			sparrow's rescue	again		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to rescue=Initial_Location
2	tell speech: assert	gerund	sparrow's rescue not said here		sparrow				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	line not said to happen	to-infinitive	sparrow's rescue not said here	the sieve				with clay	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent sieve=Destination with clay=Theme
4	rescue		sparrow						nom rescue «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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