Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 82

In the second[201] she persuades a fisherman to convey her across a sea or lake.

Who acts: sister · What happens: persuade, convey · To what, where: fisherman, sister, sea

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 (sister), 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	_	3 second	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 second	det
3	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 persuades	obl:unmarked
4	[	[	PUNCT	_	5 201	punct
5	201	201	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 second	obl
6	]	]	PUNCT	_	5 201	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 persuades	nsubj
8	persuades	persuade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 fisherman	det
10	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 persuades	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 convey	mark
12	convey	convey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 persuades	advcl
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 convey	obj
14	across	across	ADP	_	16 sea	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 sea	det
16	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 convey	obl
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 lake	cc
18	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sea	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 persuades	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	persuade	present	sister	a fisherman				in the second	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fisherman=Patient
2	convey	to-infinitive	sister not said here	sister		a sea or lake			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Topic

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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