Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, sentence 83
The witch turned into a mare, and he bridled her, led her into the yard, and jumped on her back.
Who acts: witch, Tprru · What happens: turn, bridle, lead, jump · To what, where: witch, back
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (witch, Tprru), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 witch | det |
| 2 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 mare | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 mare | det |
| 6 | mare | mare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 bridled | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 bridled | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 bridled | nsubj |
| 10 | bridled | bridle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | parataxis |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 bridled | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 led | punct |
| 13 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 bridled | conj |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 led | obj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 yard | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 yard | det |
| 17 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 led | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 jumped | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 jumped | cc |
| 20 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | conj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 back | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 back | nmod:poss |
| 23 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 jumped | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | the witch | into a mare result | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into mare=Result | ||||
| 2 | bridle | past | Tprru | witch | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Destination | ||||
| 3 | lead | past | Tprru not said here | witch | into the yard | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme into yard=Destination | |||
| 4 | jump | past | the witch not said here | witch's back | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on back=Trajectory |
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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