Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 60

The youngest sister, however, succeeds in rescuing her brother, having taken the precaution of propitiating with butter the cat Jeremiah, "who was telling the boy stories and singing him songs."

Who acts: youngest sister, precaution · What happens: succeed, rescue, have, take, propitiate, tell · To what, where: brother, precaution, cat, boy stories, songs, story · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (youngest sister, precaution), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sister	det
2	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 sister	amod
3	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 succeeds	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sister	punct
5	however	however	ADV	_	7 succeeds	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 however	punct
7	succeeds	succeed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	in	in	SCONJ	_	9 rescuing	mark
9	rescuing	rescue	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 succeeds	advcl
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 brother	nmod:poss
11	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rescuing	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 having	punct
13	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 rescuing	conj
14	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 having	xcomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 precaution	det
16	precaution	precaution	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 taken	obj
17	of	of	SCONJ	_	18 propitiating	mark
18	propitiating	propitiate	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 precaution	acl
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 butter	case
20	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 propitiating	obl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 cat	det
22	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 propitiating	obj
23	Jeremiah	Jeremiah	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 cat	appos
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 telling	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 telling	punct
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 telling	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 telling	aux
28	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 rescuing	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 stories	det
30	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 stories	compound
31	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 telling	obj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 singing	cc
33	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 telling	conj
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 singing	obj
35	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 singing	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 succeeds	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 succeeds	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	succeed	present	the youngest sister			however property	vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	rescue	gerund	the youngest sister not said here	variant's brother			vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme
3	have	gerund	the youngest sister not said here				tree rules
4	take	participle	the youngest sister not said here	the precaution			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent precaution=Theme
5	propitiate	gerund	the precaution not said here	the cat		with butter	tree rules
6	tell speech: assert in a quote	past · progressive		the boy stories			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient
7	sing speech: express in a quote	gerund		songs	story		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary song=Theme

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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