Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, sentence 51

Then she flings down three golden apples, which the "marriage-proposers" attempt to catch, but "three lightnings flash from the sky" and kill the suitor and his friends.

Who acts: Sister, three golden apples, three lightnings · What happens: fling down, attempt, catch, flash, kill · To what, where: three golden apples, sky, suitor · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Sister, three golden apples, three lightnings), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 flings	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 flings	nsubj
3	flings	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 flings	compound:prt
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 apples	nummod
6	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 apples	amod
7	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 flings	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 attempt	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 attempt	nsubj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 attempt	det
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 proposers	punct
12	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 proposers	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 marriage	punct
14	proposers	proposer	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 attempt	compound
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 proposers	punct
16	attempt	attempt	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 apples	nmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 catch	mark
18	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 attempt	acl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 flash	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 flash	cc
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 flash	punct
22	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 lightnings	nummod
23	lightnings	lightning	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 flash	nsubj
24	flash	flash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 flings	parataxis
25	from	from	ADP	_	27 sky	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 sky	det
27	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 flash	obl
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 flash	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 kill	cc
30	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 flash	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 suitor	det
32	suitor	suitor	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 kill	obj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 friends	cc
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 friends	nmod:poss
35	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 suitor	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 flings	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	fling down	present	Sister	three golden apples		then	tree rules
2	attempt		three golden apples				tree rules
3	catch	to-infinitive	Sister not said here				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	flash in a quote	present	three lightnings		the sky		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	kill	infinitive	three lightnings not said here	the suitor and song's friends			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suitor=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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