Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 41

In the oldest form of the story, the Sanskrit, a handful of earth turns into a mountain, a cup of water into a river.

Who acts: Sanskrit · What happens: turn, form · To what, where: cup, oldest form, story

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 (Sanskrit), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 form	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 form	det
3	oldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 form	amod
4	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 turns	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 story	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 story	det
7	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 form	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 form	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Sanskrit	det
10	Sanskrit	Sanskrit	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 turns	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 handful	punct
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 handful	det
13	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Sanskrit	appos
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 earth	case
15	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 handful	nmod
16	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 mountain	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 mountain	det
19	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 turns	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 cup	punct
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 cup	det
22	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 turns	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 water	case
24	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 cup	nmod
25	into	into	ADP	_	27 river	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 river	det
27	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 turns	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 turns	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	the Sanskrit	a cup of water		the oldest form of the story		into a mountain; into a river	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme in form=Source into mountain=Trajectory into river=Destination
2	form			the story					nom form «communication transitive»: 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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