Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 4

Mother Sunday rules the animal world, and can collect her subjects by playing on a magic flute.

Who acts: Mother Sunday rules · What happens: collect, play · To what, where: subjects, magic flute

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mother Sunday rules), 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	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rules	compound
2	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 rules	compound
3	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 collect	nsubj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 world	det
5	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 world	compound
6	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rules	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 collect	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 collect	cc
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 collect	aux
10	collect	collect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 subjects	nmod:poss
12	subjects	subject	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 collect	obj
13	by	by	SCONJ	_	14 playing	mark
14	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 collect	advcl
15	on	on	ADP	_	18 flute	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 flute	det
17	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 flute	amod
18	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 playing	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 collect	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	collect	can	Mother Sunday rules the animal world	Yagas's subjects					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	play	gerund	Mother Sunday rules the animal world not said here			a magic flute			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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