Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 6

He has been sent by an unnatural mother in search of various things hard to be obtained, but he is assisted in the quest by St. Ned[)e]lka, who provides him with various magical implements, and lends him her own steed Tatoschik, and so enables him four times to escape from the perils to which he has been exposed by his mother, whose mind has been entirely corrupted by an insidious dragon.

Who acts: unnatural mother, horse, Ned, e, mother, insidious dragon · What happens: send, obtain, assist, provide, lend, enable · To what, where: horse, quest, own steed, perils, mind, various things

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 (unnatural mother, horse, Ned, e), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sent	nsubj
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sent	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 sent	aux:pass
4	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	8 mother	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 mother	det
7	unnatural	unnatural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 mother	amod
8	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sent	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 search	case
10	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mother	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 things	case
12	various	various	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 things	amod
13	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 search	nmod
14	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 things	amod
15	to	to	PART	_	17 obtained	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 obtained	aux:pass
17	obtained	obtain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 hard	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 assisted	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 assisted	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 assisted	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 assisted	aux:pass
22	assisted	assist	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 sent	conj
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 quest	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 quest	det
25	quest	quest	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 assisted	obl
26	by	by	ADP	_	28 Ned	case
27	St.	St.	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Ned	nmod:desc
28	Ned	Ned	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 assisted	obl
29	[	[	PUNCT	_	31 e	punct
30	)	)	PUNCT	_	31 e	punct
31	e	e	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 Ned	appos
32	]	]	PUNCT	_	31 e	punct
33	lka	lka	X	Foreign=Yes	31 e	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 provides	punct
35	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 provides	nsubj
36	provides	provide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 e	parataxis
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 provides	obj
38	with	with	ADP	_	41 implements	case
39	various	various	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 implements	amod
40	magical	magical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 implements	amod
41	implements	implement	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 provides	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 lends	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 lends	cc
44	lends	lend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sent	parataxis
45	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 lends	iobj
46	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 steed	nmod:poss
47	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 steed	amod
48	steed	steed	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 lends	obj
49	Tatoschik	Tatoschik	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 steed	appos
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 enables	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 enables	cc
52	so	so	ADV	_	53 enables	advmod
53	enables	enable	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 lends	conj
54	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 enables	obj
55	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	56 times	nummod
56	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 enables	obl:unmarked
57	to	to	PART	_	58 escape	mark
58	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 enables	advcl
59	from	from	ADP	_	61 perils	case
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 perils	det
61	perils	peril	NOUN	Number=Plur	58 escape	obl
62	to	to	ADP	_	63 which	case
63	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	67 exposed	obl
64	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	67 exposed	nsubj:pass
65	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	67 exposed	aux
66	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	67 exposed	aux:pass
67	exposed	expose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	61 perils	acl:relcl
68	by	by	ADP	_	70 mother	case
69	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	70 mother	nmod:poss
70	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 exposed	obl
71	,	,	PUNCT	_	77 corrupted	punct
72	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	73 mind	nmod:poss
73	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	77 corrupted	nsubj:pass
74	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	77 corrupted	aux
75	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	77 corrupted	aux:pass
76	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	77 corrupted	advmod
77	corrupted	corrupt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	70 mother	acl:relcl
78	by	by	ADP	_	81 dragon	case
79	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	81 dragon	det
80	insidious	insidious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	81 dragon	amod
81	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	77 corrupted	obl
82	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	present · perfect · passive	a unnatural mother in search of various things	horse					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	obtain	to-infinitive · passive	horse not said here						vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»
3	assist	present · passive	Ned St.	horse		the quest			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary
4	provide	present	e		horse			with various magical implements	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Recipient with implement=Theme
5	lend	present		Yagas's own steed	horse				vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient steed=Theme
6	enable	present		horse			time		tree rules
7	escape	to-infinitive				the perils			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from peril=Initial_Location
8	expose	present · perfect · passive	horse's mother	horse	the perils				vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Theme to which=Recipient
9	corrupt	present · perfect · passive	a insidious dragon	mind				entirely property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
10	search			various things					nom search «act transitive»: of=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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