Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 52

Another tells how a flying Snake brought two heroes to a lake, into which they flung a green bough, and immediately the bough broke into flame and was consumed.

Who acts: Another, flying Snake, Waters, bough · What happens: tell, fly, bring, fling, break, consume · To what, where: two heroes, lake, green bough, flame · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Another, flying Snake, Waters, bough), 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	Another	another	PRON	PronType=Ind	2 tells	nsubj
2	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 brought	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 Snake	det
5	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 Snake	amod
6	Snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 brought	nsubj
7	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tells	ccomp
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 heroes	nummod
9	heroes	hero	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 brought	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 lake	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 lake	det
12	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 brought	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 flung	punct
14	into	into	ADP	_	15 which	case
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 flung	obl
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 flung	nsubj
17	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 brought	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 bough	det
19	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 bough	amod
20	bough	bough	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 flung	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 broke	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 broke	cc
23	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	26 broke	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 bough	det
25	bough	bough	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 broke	nsubj
26	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tells	parataxis
27	into	into	ADP	_	28 flame	case
28	flame	flame	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 broke	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 consumed	cc
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 consumed	aux:pass
31	consumed	consume	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 broke	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tells	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	Another				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	fly	gerund					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	bring	past	a flying Snake	two heroes	a lake		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hero=Theme to lake=Destination
4	fling	past	Waters = water	a green bough			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent bough=Theme into which=Destination
5	break	past	the bough			into flame result; immediately property	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into flame=Result
6	consume	past · passive	the bough not said here				vn consume-66 «NP V NP»

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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