Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 49

While she is weeping "like a river," some old women of the mendicant-pilgrim class come to her rescue, telling her to make four _Kukolki_, or small puppets, and to place one of them in each corner of her room.

Who acts: heroine, old women · What happens: weep, come, tell, make, rescue · To what, where: small puppets, corner, heroine, four · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heroine, old women), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	4 weeping	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 weeping	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 weeping	aux
4	weeping	weep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 come	advcl
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 river	punct
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 river	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 river	det
8	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 weeping	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 weeping	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 women	punct
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	13 women	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 women	amod
13	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 come	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	19 class	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 class	det
16	mendicant	mendicant	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pilgrim	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 mendicant	punct
18	pilgrim	pilgrim	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 class	compound
19	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 women	nmod
20	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 rescue	case
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 rescue	nmod:poss
23	rescue	rescue	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 come	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 telling	punct
25	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 come	advcl
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 telling	iobj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 make	mark
28	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 telling	xcomp
29	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 make	obj
30	_	_	PUNCT	_	31 Kukolki	punct
31	Kukolki	Kukolki	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 make	obl
32	_	_	PUNCT	_	31 Kukolki	punct
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 puppets	punct
34	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 puppets	cc
35	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 puppets	amod
36	puppets	puppet	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 come	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 place	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 place	cc
39	to	to	ADP	_	40 place	case
40	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 come	obl
41	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	40 place	flat
42	of	of	ADP	_	43 them	case
43	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 one	nmod
44	in	in	ADP	_	46 corner	case
45	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	46 corner	det
46	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 come	obl
47	of	of	ADP	_	49 room	case
48	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 room	nmod:poss
49	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 corner	nmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	weep	present · progressive	heroine				like a river	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come	infinitive	some old women of the pilgrim class	small puppets		each corner of heroine's room	to heroine's rescue; to place	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to rescue=Initial_Location to place=Destination
3	tell speech: assert	gerund	some old women of the pilgrim class not said here		heroine			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
4	make not said to happen	to-infinitive	some old women of the pilgrim class not said here	four			Kukolki obl	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset four=Product
5	rescue		heroine					nom rescue «act 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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