Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 84

Twelve grooms were mustered, they unlocked twelve locks, opened twelve doors, and brought forth a magic horse bound in twelve chains of iron.

Who acts: grooms · What happens: muster, unlock, open, bring, bind · To what, where: Twelve grooms, twelve locks, twelve doors, magic horse, twelve chains

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grooms), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg22373:3440): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 grooms	nummod
2	grooms	groom	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 mustered	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 mustered	aux:pass
4	mustered	muster	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 unlocked	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 unlocked	nsubj
7	unlocked	unlock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 mustered	parataxis
8	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 locks	nummod
9	locks	lock	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 unlocked	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 opened	punct
11	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 unlocked	conj
12	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 doors	nummod
13	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 opened	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 brought	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 brought	cc
16	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 unlocked	conj
17	forth	forth	ADV	_	16 brought	advmod
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 horse	det
19	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 horse	compound
20	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 brought	obj
21	bound	bind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 horse	acl
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 chains	case
23	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 chains	nummod
24	chains	chain	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 bound	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 iron	case
26	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 chains	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 mustered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	muster	past · passive		Twelve grooms				tree rules
2	unlock	past	grooms = groom	twelve locks				vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lock=Patient
3	open	past	grooms = groom not said here	twelve doors				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme
4	bring	past	grooms = groom not said here		a magic horse		forth property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument horse=Destination
5	bind	participle		a magic horse not said here		twelve chains of iron		vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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