Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16, sentence 196

They leave their parents sometime after their birth, but before doing so, they generally take care to try their demoniac powers on them." "

Who acts: qualities · What happens: leave, do, take, try · To what, where: parents, care, demoniac powers

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (qualities), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 leave	nsubj
2	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 parents	nmod:poss
4	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 leave	obj
5	sometime	sometime	ADV	PronType=Ind	2 leave	advmod
6	after	after	ADP	_	8 birth	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 birth	nmod:poss
8	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 leave	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 take	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 take	cc
11	before	before	SCONJ	_	12 doing	mark
12	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 take	advcl
13	so	so	ADV	_	12 doing	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 doing	punct
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 take	nsubj
16	generally	generally	ADV	_	17 take	advmod
17	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 leave	parataxis
18	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 take	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 try	mark
20	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 take	advcl
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 powers	nmod:poss
22	demoniac	demoniac	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 powers	compound
23	powers	power	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 try	obj
24	on	on	ADP	_	25 them	case
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 try	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 leave	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 leave	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 leave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	leave	present	qualities = quality	qualities's parents	after qualities's birth	sometime property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parent=Theme
2	do	gerund	qualities = quality not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	take	present	qualities = quality	care		generally property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
4	try	to-infinitive	qualities = quality not said here	qualities's demoniac powers		on qualities = quality	vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Eventuality

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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