Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 32

The magic comb and towel, by the aid of which the girl effects her escape, constantly figure in Skazkas of this class, and always produce the required effect.

Who acts: magic comb, girl · What happens: produce, require, escape, figure · To what, where: required effect, class, Skazkas

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 comb, 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	3 comb	det
2	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 comb	amod
3	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 produce	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 towel	cc
5	towel	towel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 comb	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 aid	punct
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 aid	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 aid	det
9	aid	aid	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 comb	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 which	case
11	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	14 effects	det
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 girl	det
13	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 effects	compound
14	effects	effect	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 aid	nmod
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 escape	nmod:poss
16	escape	escape	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 effects	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 figure	punct
18	constantly	constantly	ADV	_	19 figure	advmod
19	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 escape	appos
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 Skazkas	case
21	Skazkas	Skazkas	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 figure	nmod
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 class	case
23	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 class	det
24	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 figure	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 produce	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 produce	cc
27	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	28 produce	advmod
28	produce	produce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 effect	det
30	required	require	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 effect	amod
31	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 produce	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 produce	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	produce	infinitive	the magic comb and towel and the aid which girl effects girl's escape	the required effect		always property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Result
2	require	participle					vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	escape		girl				nom escape «act intransitive»: poss=agent
4	figure			this class	Skazkas		nom figure «communication transitive»: in=place of=patient

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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