Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 3
In the course of time the brothers obtain from a Baba Yaga the healing and vivifying waters, and so recover the eyes and feet they had lost.
Who acts: brothers, eyes · What happens: obtain, vivify, recover, lose · To what, where: course, waters, eyes
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 (brothers, eyes), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 course | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 course | det |
| 3 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 obtain | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 obtain | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 brothers | det |
| 7 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 obtain | nsubj |
| 8 | obtain | obtain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 Yaga | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 Yaga | det |
| 11 | Baba | Baba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Yaga | compound |
| 12 | Yaga | Yaga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 obtain | obl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 healing | det |
| 14 | healing | healing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Yaga | appos |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 vivifying | cc |
| 16 | vivifying | vivify | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 healing | conj |
| 17 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 vivifying | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 recover | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 recover | cc |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 recover | advmod |
| 21 | recover | recover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 obtain | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 eyes | det |
| 23 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 recover | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 feet | cc |
| 25 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 eyes | conj |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 lost | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 lost | aux |
| 28 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 eyes | acl:relcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 obtain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obtain | present | the brothers | the course | time | from a Baba Yaga | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from yaga=Source | ||
| 2 | vivify | gerund | the brothers not said here | waters | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | recover | infinitive | the brothers not said here | the eyes and feet | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | ||||
| 4 | lose | past · perfect | eyes = eye | the eyes and feet not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Eventuality |
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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