Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 158

But Nikita warns him that for three nights running his bride will make trial of his strength by laying her hand on his breast and pressing it hard--so hard that he will not be able to bear the pressure.

Who acts: Nikita, three nights · What happens: warn, run, make, lay, press, not be · To what, where: king, bride, trial, hand, breast, pressure

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nikita, three nights), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 warns	cc
2	Nikita	Nikita	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 warns	nsubj
3	warns	warn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 warns	obj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 make	mark
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 nights	case
7	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 nights	nummod
8	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 make	nsubj
9	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 nights	acl
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 bride	nmod:poss
11	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 running	obj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 make	aux
13	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 warns	advcl
14	trial	trial	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 make	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 strength	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 strength	nmod:poss
17	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 trial	nmod
18	by	by	SCONJ	_	19 laying	mark
19	laying	lay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 make	advcl
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 hand	nmod:poss
21	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 laying	obj
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 breast	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 breast	nmod:poss
24	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 laying	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 pressing	cc
26	pressing	press	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 laying	conj
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 pressing	obj
28	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 pressing	advmod
29	--	--	PUNCT	_	37 able	punct
30	so	so	ADV	_	31 hard	advmod
31	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	37 able	advmod
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 able	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 able	nsubj
34	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 able	aux
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 able	advmod
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 able	cop
37	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 make	conj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 bear	mark
39	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 able	xcomp
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 pressure	det
41	pressure	pressure	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 bear	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 warns	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	warn speech: warn	present	Nikita		king			vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	run	gerund	three nights not said here	Nikita's bride				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=Agent
3	make	future	three nights	trial of Nikita's strength				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset trial=Product
4	lay	gerund	three nights not said here	bride's hand		Nikita's breast		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on breast=Destination
5	press	gerund	three nights not said here	hand			hard property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
6	not is	future	Nikita				able, hard property	tree rules
7	bear	to-infinitive	Nikita not said here	the pressure				vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pressure=Patient
8	try			Nikita's strength				nom trial «act transitive»: of=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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