Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 103

This bird, her guardians told her, slept soundly all day, but at night her papa flew about on it.

Who acts: bird, papa · What happens: tell, sleep, fly · To what, where: Mamzeli, palace · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bird, papa), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 bird	det
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 bird	punct
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 guardians	nmod:poss
5	guardians	guardian	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 told	nsubj
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 told	iobj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 slept	punct
9	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 told	conj
10	soundly	soundly	ADV	_	9 slept	advmod
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 slept	obl:unmarked
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 flew	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 flew	cc
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 night	case
16	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 flew	obl
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 papa	nmod:poss
18	papa	papa	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 flew	nsubj
19	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 told	conj
20	about	about	ADV	_	19 flew	advmod
21	on	on	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 flew	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	this bird	Mamzeli				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
2	sleep	past	this bird not said here			day	soundly property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fly	past	Mamzeli's papa		palace	night	about property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Location

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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