Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 30

The spittle answers for her in her absence, behaving as do, in other folk-tales, drops of blood, or rags dipped in blood, or apples, or eggs, or beans, or stone images, or wooden puppets.

Who acts: spittle, girl · What happens: answer, behave, dip, absent · To what, where: absence, apples, other folk tales, rags

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 (spittle, girl), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 spittle	det
2	spittle	spittle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 answers	nsubj
3	answers	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 her	case
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 answers	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 absence	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 absence	nmod:poss
8	absence	absence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 answers	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 behaving	punct
10	behaving	behave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 answers	conj
11	as	as	ADP	_	12 do	case
12	do	do	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 behaving	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 tales	punct
14	in	in	ADP	_	18 tales	case
15	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 tales	amod
16	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tales	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 folk	punct
18	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 behaving	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 drops	punct
20	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 tales	conj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 blood	case
22	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 drops	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 rags	punct
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 rags	cc
25	rags	rag	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 tales	conj
26	dipped	dip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 rags	acl
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 blood	case
28	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 dipped	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 apples	punct
30	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 apples	cc
31	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 behaving	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 eggs	punct
33	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 eggs	cc
34	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 apples	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 beans	punct
36	or	or	CCONJ	_	37 beans	cc
37	beans	bean	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 apples	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 images	punct
39	or	or	CCONJ	_	41 images	cc
40	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 images	compound
41	images	image	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 behaving	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 puppets	punct
43	or	or	CCONJ	_	45 puppets	cc
44	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 puppets	amod
45	puppets	puppet	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 images	conj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 answers	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	present	the spittle		girl's absence	for girl	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	behave	gerund	the spittle not said here	apples or eggs or beans	other folk tales and drops of blood or rags	as do; stone images or wooden puppets obl	vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as do=Attribute
3	dip	participle		rags not said here		in blood	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in blood=Attribute
4	absent		girl				nom absence «state 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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