Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 69

He is white, and he is dressed in white, under him is a white horse, and the trappings of the horse are white--and the day begins to break.

Who acts: horseman, trappings, day · What happens: be, dress, begin, break · To what, where: horseman, white

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horseman, trappings, day), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 white	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 white	cop
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 dressed	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 dressed	cc
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 dressed	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 dressed	aux:pass
8	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 white	advcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 white	case
10	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dressed	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 horse	punct
12	under	under	ADP	_	17 horse	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 horse	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 horse	cop
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 horse	det
16	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 horse	amod
17	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dressed	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 white	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 white	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 trappings	det
21	trappings	trapping	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 white	nsubj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 horse	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 horse	det
24	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 trappings	nmod
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 white	cop
26	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 white	conj
27	--	--	PUNCT	_	31 begins	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 begins	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 day	det
30	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 begins	nsubj
31	begins	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 white	parataxis
32	to	to	PART	_	33 break	mark
33	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 begins	xcomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 white	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	horseman			white property	tree rules
2	dress	present · passive		horseman	white		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	is	present	horseman			under a white horse	tree rules
4	is	present	the trappings of the horse			white property	tree rules
5	begin	present	the day				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	break	to-infinitive	the day not said here				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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