Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 86

Presently he appeared on that very pine under which the maiden was sitting and from above her head he cried:--

Who acts: pigeon, maiden · What happens: appear, sit, cry · To what, where: pine, head

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pigeon, maiden), 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	Presently	presently	ADV	_	3 appeared	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 appeared	nsubj
3	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 pine	case
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 pine	det
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 pine	advmod
7	pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 appeared	obl
8	under	under	ADP	_	9 which	case
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 sitting	obl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 maiden	det
11	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sitting	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 sitting	aux
13	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 pine	acl:relcl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 cried	cc
15	from	from	ADP	_	18 head	case
16	above	above	ADP	_	18 head	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 head	nmod:poss
18	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 cried	obl
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 cried	nsubj
20	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 appeared	conj
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 cried	punct
22	--	--	PUNCT	_	3 appeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	appear	past	pigeon	that pine	presently property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on pine=Location
2	sit	past · progressive	the maiden	that pine		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under which=Location
3	cry speech: express	past	pigeon	maiden's head		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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