Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 62

In another variant[214] the bereaved mother sends three servant-maids in search of her boy.

Who acts: bereaved mother · What happens: bereave, send, search · To what, where: three servant maids, variant, boy

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 (bereaved mother), 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	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	3 variant	det
3	variant	variant	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sends	obl
4	[	[	PUNCT	_	5 214	punct
5	214	214	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 variant	appos
6	]	]	PUNCT	_	5 214	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mother	det
8	bereaved	bereave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 mother	amod
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sends	nsubj
10	sends	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 maids	nummod
12	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 maids	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 servant	punct
14	maids	maid	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sends	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 search	case
16	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sends	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 boy	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 boy	nmod:poss
19	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 search	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 sends	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bereave	participle					vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	send	present	the bereaved mother	three servant maids	another variant	in search of mother's boy	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent maid=Theme in variant=Destination
3	search			mother's boy			nom search «act transitive»: of=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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