Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 160

All this comes to pass; the bride lays her hand on the bridegroom's breast, and says--

Who acts: this, bride · What happens: come, pass, lay, say · To what, where: hand, breast · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (this, bride), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 this	det:predet
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 comes	nsubj
3	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 pass	mark
5	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 comes	xcomp
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 lays	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bride	det
8	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lays	nsubj
9	lays	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 comes	conj
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hand	nmod:poss
11	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lays	obj
12	on	on	ADP	_	16 breast	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bridegroom	det
14	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 breast	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 bridegroom	case
16	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lays	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 says	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 says	cc
19	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 comes	parataxis
20	--	--	PUNCT	_	19 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	come	present	this			tree rules
2	pass	to-infinitive	this not said here			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	lay	present	the bride	bride's hand	the bridegroom's breast	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on breast=Destination
4	say speech: assert	present				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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