Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 97

On the wedding night she intends to kill her sons-in-law; but they, acting on the advice of him who had been the weakling of their party, but who has become a mighty hero, exchange clothes with their brides before "lying down to sleep."

Who acts: couple, eggs, advice · What happens: intend, kill, act, be, become, exchange · To what, where: sons, advice, weakling, mighty hero, clothes

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 (couple, eggs, 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	On	on	ADP	_	4 night	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 night	det
3	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 night	compound
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 intends	obl
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 intends	nsubj
6	intends	intend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 kill	mark
8	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 intends	xcomp
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 sons	nmod:poss
10	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 kill	obj
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 law	punct
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 law	case
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 in	punct
14	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sons	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 acting	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 acting	cc
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 acting	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 acting	punct
19	acting	act	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 intends	advcl
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 advice	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 advice	det
22	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 acting	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 advice	nmod
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 weakling	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 weakling	aux
27	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 weakling	cop
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 weakling	det
29	weakling	weakling	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 advice	parataxis
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 party	case
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 party	nmod:poss
32	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 weakling	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 become	punct
34	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 become	cc
35	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 become	nsubj
36	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 become	aux
37	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 intends	parataxis
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 hero	det
39	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 hero	amod
40	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 become	xcomp
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 exchange	punct
42	exchange	exchange	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 become	conj
43	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	42 exchange	obj
44	with	with	ADP	_	46 brides	case
45	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 brides	nmod:poss
46	brides	bride	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 exchange	obl
47	before	before	SCONJ	_	49 lying	mark
48	"	"	PUNCT	_	49 lying	punct
49	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	42 exchange	advcl
50	down	down	ADV	_	49 lying	advmod
51	to	to	PART	_	52 sleep	mark
52	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 lying	advcl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 intends	punct
54	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 intends	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	intend	present	couple			night		vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	kill not said to happen	to-infinitive	couple not said here	couple's sons and law				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme
3	act	gerund	eggs = egg		the advice of man			vn act-114-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on advice=Eventuality
4	is a	past · perfect	the advice of man	the weakling			of eggs's party	tree rules
5	become	present · perfect		a mighty hero				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
6	exchange	infinitive		clothes			with eggs's brides	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme with bride=Co-Agent
7	lie down in a quote	gerund					down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	sleep in a quote	to-infinitive						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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