Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 2

Throwing Nikita into a slumber which lasts for twenty-four hours, she has his feet cut off, and sets him adrift in a boat; then she degrades her husband, turning him into a swineherd, and she puts out the eyes of Nikita's brother Timofei.

Who acts: slumber, Nikita · What happens: throw, last, have, cut off, set, degrade · To what, where: Nikita, slumber, feet, him, husband, swineherd

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 (slumber, Nikita), 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	Throwing	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 has	csubj
2	Nikita	Nikita	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Throwing	obj
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 slumber	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 slumber	det
5	slumber	slumber	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Throwing	obl
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 lasts	nsubj
7	lasts	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 slumber	acl:relcl
8	for	for	ADP	_	12 hours	case
9	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 four	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 twenty	punct
11	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 hours	nummod
12	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lasts	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Throwing	punct
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 has	nsubj
15	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 feet	nmod:poss
17	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 has	obj
18	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 feet	acl
19	off	off	ADP	_	18 cut	compound:prt
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sets	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 sets	cc
22	sets	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 has	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 sets	obj
24	adrift	adrift	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 sets	xcomp
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 boat	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 boat	det
27	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 adrift	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 degrades	punct
29	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 degrades	advmod
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 degrades	nsubj
31	degrades	degrade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 has	parataxis
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 husband	nmod:poss
33	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 degrades	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 turning	punct
35	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 degrades	advcl
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 turning	obj
37	into	into	ADP	_	39 swineherd	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 swineherd	det
39	swineherd	swineherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 turning	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 puts	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 puts	cc
42	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 puts	nsubj
43	puts	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 degrades	conj
44	out	out	ADP	_	43 puts	compound:prt
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 eyes	det
46	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 puts	obj
47	of	of	ADP	_	50 brother	case
48	Nikita	Nikita	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 brother	nmod:poss
49	's	's	PART	_	48 Nikita	case
50	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 eyes	nmod
51	Timofei	Timofei	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 brother	appos
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	gerund		Nikita			into a slumber result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer nikita=Theme into slumber=Result
2	last	present	a slumber			hour		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
3	have	present	Nikita	his feet				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient
4	cut off	participle		his feet not said here				vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	set	present	Nikita not said here	him = he			adrift property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient he=Result
6	degrade	present	Nikita	Nikita's husband		then		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent husband=Patient
7	turn	gerund	Nikita not said here	husband	a swineherd			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme into swineherd=Trajectory
8	put out	present	Nikita	the eyes of Nikita's brother				vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent eye=Goal

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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