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Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 82

[310] In a similar story from the Ukraine, mention is made of two springs of healing and life-giving water, which are guarded by iron-beaked ravens, and the way to which lies between grinding hills.

Who acts: beaked ravens, way · What happens: make, give, guard, beak, lie, grind · To what, where: mention, giving water, hills

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 (beaked ravens, way), 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

punctpunctcasedetamodnmodcasedetnmodpunctnsubj:passaux:passaclcasenummodoblcasenmodcccompoundpunctamodconjpunctnsubj:passaux:passacl:relclcasecompoundpunctamodoblpunctccdetoblcasensubjacl:relclmarkadvclobjpunctroot[PUNCT310NUM]PUNCTInADPaDETsimilarADJstoryNOUNfromADPtheDETUkrainePROPN,PUNCTmentionNOUNisAUXmadeVERBofADPtwoNUMspringsNOUNofADPhealingNOUNandCCONJlifeNOUN-PUNCTgivingVERBwaterNOUN,PUNCTwhichPRONareAUXguardedVERBbyADPironNOUN-PUNCTbeakedVERBravensNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJtheDETwayNOUNtoADPwhichPRONliesVERBbetweenADPgrindingVERBhillsNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1[[PUNCT_2 310punct
2310310NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Cardrootroot
3]]PUNCT_2 310punct
4IninADP_7 storycase
5aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art7 storydet
6similarsimilarADJDegree=Pos7 storyamod
7storystoryNOUNNumber=Sing2 310nmod
8fromfromADP_10 Ukrainecase
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 Ukrainedet
10UkraineUkrainePROPNNumber=Sing7 storynmod
11,,PUNCT_14 madepunct
12mentionmentionNOUNNumber=Sing14 madensubj:pass
13isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin14 madeaux:pass
14mademakeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass2 310acl
15ofofADP_17 springscase
16twotwoNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card17 springsnummod
17springsspringNOUNNumber=Plur14 madeobl
18ofofADP_19 healingcase
19healinghealingNOUNNumber=Sing17 springsnmod
20andandCCONJ_24 watercc
21lifelifeNOUNNumber=Sing23 givingcompound
22--PUNCT_21 lifepunct
23givinggiveVERBVerbForm=Ger24 wateramod
24waterwaterNOUNNumber=Sing19 healingconj
25,,PUNCT_28 guardedpunct
26whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel28 guardednsubj:pass
27arebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin28 guardedaux:pass
28guardedguardVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass24 wateracl:relcl
29bybyADP_33 ravenscase
30ironironNOUNNumber=Sing32 beakedcompound
31--PUNCT_30 ironpunct
32beakedbeakVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass33 ravensamod
33ravensravenNOUNNumber=Plur28 guardedobl
34,,PUNCT_37 waypunct
35andandCCONJ_37 waycc
36thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art37 waydet
37waywayNOUNNumber=Sing14 madeobl
38totoADP_39 whichcase
39whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel40 liesnsubj
40lieslieVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin37 wayacl:relcl
41betweenbetweenADP_42 grindingmark
42grindinggrindVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part40 liesadvcl
43hillshillNOUNNumber=Plur42 grindingobj
44..PUNCT_2 310punct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1makepresent · passivementionspringthe way oblvn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2givegerundvn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3guardpresent · passivebeaked ravensgiving watervn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary
4beakparticipletree rules
5liepresentthe wayvn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6grindgerundthe way not said herehillsvn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hill=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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