Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 139

She first turned into a frog, then assumed various reptile forms, and finally became a spindle.

Who acts: mother, reptile · What happens: turn, assume, form, become · To what, where: spindle

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 (mother, reptile), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turned	nsubj
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 turned	advmod
3	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 frog	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 frog	det
6	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 assumed	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 assumed	advmod
9	assumed	assume	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 turned	conj
10	various	various	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 assumed	xcomp
11	reptile	reptile	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 forms	nsubj
12	forms	form	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 various	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 became	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 became	cc
15	finally	finally	ADV	_	16 became	advmod
16	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 turned	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 spindle	det
18	spindle	spindle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 became	xcomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	mother			into a frog result; first property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into frog=Result
2	assume	participle	mother not said here		then	various property	vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	form	present	reptile				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	become	past	mother not said here	a spindle		finally property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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