Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 61

Vanya crept into one of the horse's ears and out of the other, and turned into such a hero as no skazka can tell of, no pen describe!

Who acts: Vanya, skazka, pen · What happens: creep, turn, tell, describe · To what, where: hero · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Vanya, skazka, pen), 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	Vanya	Vanya	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 crept	nsubj
2	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	4 one	case
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 crept	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 ears	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 horse	det
7	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ears	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 horse	case
9	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 one	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 other	cc
11	out	out	ADP	_	14 other	case
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 other	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 other	det
14	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 one	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 turned	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 turned	cc
17	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 crept	parataxis
18	into	into	ADP	_	21 hero	case
19	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	21 hero	det:predet
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 hero	det
21	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 turned	obl
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 tell	mark
23	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	24 skazka	det
24	skazka	skazka	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 tell	nsubj
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 tell	aux
26	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 turned	advcl
27	of	of	ADP	_	26 tell	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 describe	punct
29	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	30 pen	det
30	pen	pen	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 describe	nsubj
31	describe	describe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 tell	conj
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 crept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	creep	past	Vanya		into one of the horse's ears	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into one=Destination
2	turn	past		such hero		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into hero=Trajectory
3	tell speech: assert	can	no skazka			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	describe	infinitive	no pen			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: 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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