Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 75

He follows his instructions, rides to a certain spot, and there awaits the hour at which the mountains fly apart. "

Who acts: hero, mountains · What happens: follow, ride, await, fly apart, instruct · To what, where: instructions, certain spot

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 (hero, mountains), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 follows	nsubj
2	follows	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 instructions	nmod:poss
4	instructions	instruction	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 follows	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 rides	punct
6	rides	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 follows	conj
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 spot	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 spot	det
9	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 spot	amod
10	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rides	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 awaits	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 awaits	cc
13	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 awaits	advmod
14	awaits	await	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 fly	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 hour	det
16	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 awaits	obj
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 which	case
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 fly	obl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 mountains	det
20	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 fly	nsubj
21	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 follows	parataxis
22	apart	apart	ADV	_	21 fly	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 follows	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 follows	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	present	hero	hero's instructions				vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instruction=Theme
2	ride	present	hero not said here		a certain spot			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to spot=Trajectory
3	await	present	the mountains not said here		there	hour		tree rules
4	fly apart	present	the mountains				apart property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at which=Location
5	instruct		hero					nom instruction «communication transitive»: poss=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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