Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 110
He is enabled to perform this feat by a magic horse, which he obtains by watching his father's crops on three successive St. John's Nights.
Who acts: story, magic horse · What happens: enable, perform, obtain, watch · To what, where: story, feat, crops
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story, magic horse), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 enabled | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 enabled | aux:pass |
| 3 | enabled | enable | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 perform | mark |
| 5 | perform | perform | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 enabled | xcomp |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 feat | det |
| 7 | feat | feat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 perform | obj |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 horse | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 horse | det |
| 10 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 horse | amod |
| 11 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 perform | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 obtains | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 obtains | nsubj |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 obtains | nsubj |
| 15 | obtains | obtain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 horse | acl:relcl |
| 16 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 17 watching | mark |
| 17 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 obtains | advcl |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 father | nmod:poss |
| 19 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 crops | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 father | case |
| 21 | crops | crop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 watching | obj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 Nights | case |
| 23 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 Nights | nummod |
| 24 | successive | successive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 Nights | amod |
| 25 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 John | nmod:desc |
| 26 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Nights | nmod:poss |
| 27 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 26 John | case |
| 28 | Nights | Night | PROPN | Number=Plur | 21 crops | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 enabled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enable | present · passive | story | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | perform | to-infinitive | story not said here | this feat | by a magic horse | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feat=Theme | |||
| 3 | obtain | present | a magic horse | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 4 | watch | gerund | a magic horse not said here | story's father's crops | on John St.'s three successive Nights | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crop=Theme |
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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