Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 76

So threatening was her mien, that Vazuza was frightened, declared herself to be Volga's younger sister, and besought Volga to take her in her arms and bear her to the Caspian Sea.

Who acts: mien · What happens: threaten, be, frighten, declare, beseech, take · To what, where: mien, Vazuza, younger sister, Volga, arms

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 (mien), 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 threatening	advmod
2	threatening	threaten	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 mien	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 mien	cop
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mien	nmod:poss
5	mien	mien	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 declared	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 frightened	punct
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 frightened	mark
8	Vazuza	Vazuza	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 frightened	nsubj:pass
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 frightened	aux:pass
10	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 mien	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 mien	punct
12	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 declared	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	19 sister	mark
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 sister	cop
16	Volga	Volga	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 sister	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 Volga	case
18	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 sister	amod
19	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 declared	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 besought	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 besought	cc
22	besought	beseech	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 declared	conj
23	Volga	Volga	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 besought	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 take	mark
25	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 besought	xcomp
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 take	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 arms	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 arms	nmod:poss
29	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 take	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 bear	cc
31	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 take	conj
32	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 bear	obj
33	to	to	ADP	_	36 Sea	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 Sea	det
35	Caspian	Caspian	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 Sea	compound
36	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 bear	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 declared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	threaten	gerund					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past		Vazuza's mien			tree rules
3	frighten	past · passive	Vazuza's mien not said here	Vazuza			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
4	declare speech: other	past	Vazuza's mien	Vazuza			vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Attribute
5	is a	to-infinitive	Vazuza's mien not said here	Volga's younger sister			tree rules
6	beseech	past	Vazuza's mien not said here	Volga			tree rules
7	take	to-infinitive	Vazuza's mien not said here	Vazuza	Vazuza's arms		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Value in arm=Location
8	bear	infinitive	Vazuza's mien not said here	Vazuza		to the Caspian Sea	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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