Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 106

So at night she sought the _Zhar-Ptitsa_, which was sitting up and flapping its wings, and asked whether she might fly abroad on its back.

Who acts: Mamzeli · What happens: seek, sit up, flap, ask, fly · To what, where: Zhar Ptitsa, wings, back · 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 (Mamzeli), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 sought	advmod
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 night	case
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sought	obl
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sought	nsubj
5	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Ptitsa	det
7	_	_	PUNCT	_	8 Zhar	punct
8	Zhar	Zhar	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Ptitsa	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 Zhar	punct
10	Ptitsa	Ptitsa	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sought	obj
11	_	_	PUNCT	_	5 sought	punct
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sitting	punct
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 sitting	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 sitting	aux
15	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 sought	advcl
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 sitting	compound:prt
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 flapping	cc
18	flapping	flap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 sitting	conj
19	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 wings	nmod:poss
20	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 flapping	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 asked	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 asked	cc
23	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sought	conj
24	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	27 fly	mark
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 fly	nsubj
26	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 fly	aux
27	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 asked	ccomp
28	abroad	abroad	ADV	_	27 fly	advmod
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 back	case
30	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 back	nmod:poss
31	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fly	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seek	past	Mamzeli	the Zhar Ptitsa		night		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ptitsa=Theme
2	sit up	past · progressive						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	flap	gerund		veil's wings				vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient
4	ask speech: ask	past	Mamzeli not said here					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	fly	might	Mamzeli		veil's back		abroad property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent on back=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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