Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 93
When it is killed, there springs from its bones a tree which befriends the girl, and gains her a lordly husband.
Who acts: tree · What happens: kill, befriend, gain · To what, where: Skazkas, girl, lordly husband
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 (tree), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 killed | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 killed | aux:pass |
| 4 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 springs | punct |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 springs | expl |
| 7 | springs | spring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 killed | obl |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 bones | case |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 bones | nmod:poss |
| 10 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 springs | nmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 tree | det |
| 12 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bones | appos |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 befriends | nsubj |
| 14 | befriends | befriend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 tree | acl:relcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 girl | det |
| 16 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 befriends | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 gains | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 gains | cc |
| 19 | gains | gain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 befriends | conj |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 gains | obj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 husband | det |
| 22 | lordly | lordly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 husband | amod |
| 23 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gains | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | present · passive | Skazkas | spring | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | befriend | present | a tree | the girl | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | gain | present | a tree not said here | a lordly husband | girl | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary husband=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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