Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 17

She had put out his eyes, and had cut off the feet of another companion of her husband; in this variant also the Healing Waters are found by the aid of a snake.

Who acts: wife, aid · What happens: put out, cut off, find · To what, where: eyes, feet, variant, Waters

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 (wife, aid), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 put	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 put	aux
3	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 put	compound:prt
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 eyes	nmod:poss
6	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 put	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cut	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 cut	cc
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 cut	aux
10	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 put	conj
11	off	off	ADP	_	13 feet	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 feet	det
13	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 cut	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 companion	case
15	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	16 companion	det
16	companion	companion	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 feet	nmod
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 husband	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 husband	nmod:poss
19	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 companion	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 variant	punct
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 variant	case
22	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 variant	det
23	variant	variant	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cut	obl
24	also	also	ADV	_	26 Healing	advmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Healing	det
26	Healing	healing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cut	obl
27	Waters	Water	PROPN	Number=Plur	29 found	nsubj
28	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 found	aux:pass
29	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 Healing	acl:relcl
30	by	by	ADP	_	32 aid	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 aid	det
32	aid	aid	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 found	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 snake	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 snake	det
35	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 aid	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	put out	past · perfect	wife	husband's eyes			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent eye=Goal
2	cut off	past · perfect	wife not said here	the feet of another companion of wife's husband	this variant	the Healing obl	vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector foot=Eventuality
3	find	present · passive	the aid of a snake	Waters			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic

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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