Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, sentence 86

42), Indrasena comes to a place in which sits a Rakshasa on a throne between two fair ladies.

Who acts: Indrasena, place · What happens: come, sit · To what, where: 42, place, Rakshasa, throne

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 (Indrasena, place), 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	42	42	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 comes	obl
2	)	)	PUNCT	_	1 42	punct
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 42	punct
4	Indrasena	Indrasena	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 comes	nsubj
5	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 place	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 place	det
8	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 comes	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 which	case
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 sits	nsubj
11	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 place	acl:relcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 Rakshasa	det
13	Rakshasa	Rakshasa	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 sits	obj
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 throne	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 throne	det
16	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sits	obl
17	between	between	ADP	_	20 ladies	case
18	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 ladies	nummod
19	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 ladies	amod
20	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 throne	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 comes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	Indrasena	42		a place			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location
2	sit	present	a place	a Rakshasa		a throne between two fair ladies			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent rakshasa=Theme on throne=Location

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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