Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 81

In a Slovak version of this story, a murderous mother sends her son to two mountains, each of which is cleft open once in every twenty-four hours--the one opening at midday and the other at midnight; the former disclosing the Water of Life, the latter the Water of Death.

Who acts: murderous mother, one · What happens: send, be, open, disclose · To what, where: son, Slovak version, midday

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 (murderous mother, one), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 version	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 version	det
3	Slovak	Slovak	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 version	compound
4	version	version	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sends	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 story	case
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 story	det
7	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 version	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 version	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 mother	det
10	murderous	murderous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 mother	amod
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sends	nsubj
12	sends	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 son	nmod:poss
14	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sends	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 mountains	case
16	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 mountains	nummod
17	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sends	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 each	punct
19	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	17 mountains	appos
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 which	case
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 open	obl
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 open	cop
23	cleft	cleft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 open	amod
24	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 each	acl
25	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 sends	advmod
26	in	in	ADP	_	31 hours	case
27	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	31 hours	det
28	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 four	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 twenty	punct
30	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 hours	nummod
31	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sends	obl
32	--	--	PUNCT	_	34 one	punct
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 one	det
34	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sends	parataxis
35	opening	open	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 one	acl
36	at	at	ADP	_	37 midday	case
37	midday	midday	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 opening	obl
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 other	cc
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 other	det
40	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 opening	conj
41	at	at	ADP	_	42 midnight	case
42	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 other	obl
43	;	;	PUNCT	_	48 Water	punct
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 Water	det
45	former	former	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 Water	amod
46	disclosing	disclose	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	48 Water	amod
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 Water	det
48	Water	Water	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 sends	parataxis
49	of	of	ADP	_	50 Life	case
50	Life	Life	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 Water	nmod
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 Water	punct
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 latter	det
53	latter	latter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 Water	amod
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 Water	det
55	Water	Water	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 Water	conj
56	of	of	ADP	_	57 Death	case
57	Death	Death	PROPN	Number=Sing	55 Water	nmod
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 sends	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	present	a murderous mother	mother's son	a Slovak version of this story	hour	to two mountains; once property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent son=Theme in version=Destination
2	is	present					open property	tree rules
3	open	gerund	the one not said here		midday			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at midday=Location
4	disclose	gerund						vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot

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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