Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 53

In this variant the boy rows a silver boat with a golden oar; in another South Russian variant[212] the boat is golden, the oar of silver.

Who acts: boy, boat · What happens: row, be · To what, where: silver boat, variant

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, boat), 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 variant	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 variant	det
3	variant	variant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rows	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boy	det
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rows	nsubj
6	rows	row	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 boat	det
8	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 boat	amod
9	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rows	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 oar	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 oar	det
12	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 oar	amod
13	oar	oar	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rows	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 variant	punct
15	in	in	ADP	_	19 variant	case
16	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	19 variant	det
17	South	South	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 variant	amod
18	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 variant	amod
19	variant	variant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rows	conj
20	[	[	PUNCT	_	21 212	punct
21	212	212	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	19 variant	appos
22	]	]	PUNCT	_	21 212	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 boat	det
24	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 golden	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 golden	cop
26	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 variant	parataxis
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 oar	punct
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 oar	det
29	oar	oar	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 variant	conj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 silver	case
31	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 oar	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 rows	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	row	present	the boy	a silver boat		this variant		with a golden oar	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent boat=Location
2	is	present	the boat					golden property	tree rules

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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