Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 129

But Marya persuaded her father, who acted as the butcher, to give her a part of the cow's entrails, which she buried near the threshold; and from it there sprang a bush covered with berries, and haunted by birds which sang "songs royal and rustic."

Who acts: Marya, father, birds · What happens: persuade, act, give, bury, spring, cover · To what, where: father, part, Marya, entrails, threshold, bush

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Marya, father, birds), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 persuaded	cc
2	Marya	Marya	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 persuaded	nsubj
3	persuaded	persuade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 father	nmod:poss
5	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 persuaded	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 acted	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 acted	nsubj
8	acted	act	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 father	acl:relcl
9	as	as	ADP	_	11 butcher	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 butcher	det
11	butcher	butcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 acted	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 give	punct
13	to	to	PART	_	14 give	mark
14	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 persuaded	conj
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 give	iobj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 part	det
17	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 give	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	22 entrails	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 cow	det
20	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 entrails	nmod:poss
21	's	's	PART	_	20 cow	case
22	entrails	entrail	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 part	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 buried	punct
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 buried	obj
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 buried	nsubj
26	buried	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 entrails	acl:relcl
27	near	near	ADP	_	29 threshold	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 threshold	det
29	threshold	threshold	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 buried	obl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 sprang	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 sprang	cc
32	from	from	ADP	_	33 it	case
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 sprang	obl
34	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 sprang	advmod
35	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 persuaded	parataxis
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 bush	det
37	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 sprang	obj
38	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 bush	acl
39	with	with	ADP	_	40 berries	case
40	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 covered	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 haunted	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 haunted	cc
43	haunted	haunt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 sprang	conj
44	by	by	ADP	_	45 birds	case
45	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 haunted	obl
46	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	47 sang	nsubj
47	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 birds	acl:relcl
48	"	"	PUNCT	_	49 songs	punct
49	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 sang	obl
50	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 sang	xcomp
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 rustic	cc
52	rustic	rustic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 royal	conj
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 persuaded	punct
54	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 persuaded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	persuade	past	Marya	Marya's father				vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Patient
2	act	past	Marya's father				as the butcher	vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as butcher=Attribute
3	give	to-infinitive	Marya not said here	a part of the cow's entrails	Marya			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient part=Theme
4	bury	past	Marya	the cow's entrails		the threshold		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent which=Theme near threshold=Destination
5	spring	past		a bush		threshold; there		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location bush=Theme
6	cover	participle		a bush not said here			with berries	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with berry=Theme
7	haunt	participle					by birds	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
8	sing speech: express	past	birds	songs			royal property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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