Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, sentence 44

Death comes in search of him, after a hundred years or so have elapsed, and engages in a struggle with the Moon, the result of which is that the man is caught up into the sky, and there shines thenceforth "as a star near the moon."

Who acts: Death · What happens: come, elapse, engage, be, shine, search · To what, where: search, struggle, man, sky, Prince

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Death), 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	Death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 comes	nsubj
2	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 search	case
4	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 comes	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 search	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 years	punct
8	after	after	ADP	_	11 years	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 hundred	det
10	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 years	nummod
11	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 comes	obl
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 elapsed	cc
13	so	so	ADV	_	15 elapsed	advmod
14	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 elapsed	aux
15	elapsed	elapse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 years	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 engages	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 engages	cc
18	engages	engage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 comes	conj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 struggle	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 struggle	det
21	struggle	struggle	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 engages	obl
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 Moon	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Moon	det
24	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 struggle	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 result	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 result	det
27	result	result	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 Moon	appos
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 which	case
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 caught	obl
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 caught	cop
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 caught	mark
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 man	det
33	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 caught	nsubj
34	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 caught	aux:pass
35	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 result	acl:relcl
36	up	up	ADP	_	35 caught	compound:prt
37	into	into	ADP	_	39 sky	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 sky	det
39	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 caught	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 shines	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 shines	cc
42	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	43 shines	expl
43	shines	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 comes	parataxis
44	thenceforth	thenceforth	ADV	_	43 shines	advmod
45	"	"	PUNCT	_	43 shines	punct
46	as	as	ADP	_	48 star	case
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 star	det
48	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 shines	obl
49	near	near	ADP	_	51 moon	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 moon	det
51	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 star	nmod
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 comes	punct
53	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 comes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	Death		search of Prince	year		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in search=Location
2	elapse	infinitive · perfect	Death not said here					tree rules
3	engage	present	Death not said here				in a struggle with the Moon goal	vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent in struggle=Goal
4	is	present · passive		the man	the sky		of the result; catch property	tree rules
5	shine	present			there		as a star near the moon; thenceforth property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	search			Prince				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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