Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 69

The Prince steals it and flees, but he bears on him the weight of sin, and so, when he tries to clear the fence which girds the enchanted castle, his horse strikes one of the cords attached to it, and the spell is broken which maintains the magic sleep in which the realm is locked.

Who acts: Prince, fence, horse · What happens: steal, flee, bear, try, clear, gird · To what, where: compassion, fence, enchanted castle, one, cords, horse

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 (Prince, fence, horse), 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 Prince	det
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 steals	nsubj
3	steals	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 steals	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 flees	cc
6	flees	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 steals	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bears	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 bears	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 bears	nsubj
10	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 steals	parataxis
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 bears	nmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 weight	det
14	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 him	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 sin	case
16	sin	sin	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 weight	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 tries	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 tries	cc
19	so	so	ADV	_	23 tries	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 tries	punct
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 tries	advmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 tries	nsubj
23	tries	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 steals	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 clear	mark
25	clear	clear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 tries	xcomp
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 fence	det
27	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 clear	obj
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 girds	nsubj
29	girds	gird	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 fence	acl:relcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 castle	det
31	enchanted	enchant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 castle	amod
32	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 girds	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 strikes	punct
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 horse	nmod:poss
35	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 strikes	nsubj
36	strikes	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 tries	conj
37	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 strikes	obj
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 cords	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 cords	det
40	cords	cord	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 one	nmod
41	attached	attach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 cords	acl
42	to	to	ADP	_	43 it	case
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 attached	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 broken	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 broken	cc
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 spell	det
47	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 broken	nsubj:pass
48	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 broken	aux:pass
49	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 tries	conj
50	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	51 maintains	nsubj
51	maintains	maintain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 broken	parataxis
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 sleep	det
53	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 sleep	amod
54	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 maintains	obj
55	in	in	ADP	_	56 which	case
56	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	60 locked	obl
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 realm	det
58	realm	realm	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 locked	nsubj:pass
59	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	60 locked	aux:pass
60	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	54 sleep	acl:relcl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 steals	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	steal	present	the Prince	compassion				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
2	flee	present	the Prince not said here					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	bear		Prince				on father	tree rules
4	try	present	Prince					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	clear not said to happen	to-infinitive	Prince not said here	the fence				vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent fence=Source
6	gird	present	the fence	the enchanted castle				tree rules
7	enchant	participle						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
8	strike	present	Prince's horse	one of the cords				vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
9	attach	participle		the cords not said here	horse			vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to it=Co-Patient
10	break	present · passive		the spell				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
11	maintain	present		the magic sleep				vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent sleep=Theme
12	lock	present · passive		the realm		the magic sleep		vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=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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