Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 20

The well is very deep, but she induces the murderer to allow her to lower him into it by means of her remarkably long hair.

Who acts: well, spirit, murderer · What happens: be, induce, allow, lower, mean · To what, where: murderer, spirit, knowledge, long hair

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., 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 (well, spirit, murderer), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 well	det
2	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 deep	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 deep	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 deep	advmod
5	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 induces	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 induces	cc
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 induces	nsubj
9	induces	induce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 means	nsubj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 murderer	det
11	murderer	murderer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 induces	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 allow	mark
13	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 murderer	acl
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 allow	iobj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 lower	mark
16	lower	lower	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 allow	xcomp
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 lower	obj
18	into	into	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 lower	obl
20	by	by	ADP	_	16 lower	obl
21	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 deep	parataxis
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 her	case
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 means	obl
24	remarkably	remarkably	ADV	_	25 long	advmod
25	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 hair	amod
26	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 means	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 deep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	the well				deep property	tree rules
2	induce	present	spirit	the murderer				vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent murderer=Patient
3	allow	to-infinitive	spirit not said here	the murderer not said here	spirit			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer she=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
4	lower not said to happen	to-infinitive	the murderer not said here	knowledge		murderer		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into it=Destination
5	mean	present		long hair			of spirit	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Topic

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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