Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 112

Then the princess, thinking it was really dead, buried it in the earth--having first cut off its wings, and "attached them to herself so as to walk more lightly."

Who acts: princess, rider · What happens: think, be, bury, have, cut off, attach · To what, where: rider, earth, wings, princess · 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 (princess, rider), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 buried	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 princess	det
3	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 buried	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 thinking	punct
5	thinking	think	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 princess	acl
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 dead	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 dead	cop
8	really	really	ADV	_	9 dead	advmod
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thinking	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 princess	punct
11	buried	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 buried	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 earth	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 earth	det
15	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 buried	obl
16	--	--	PUNCT	_	17 having	punct
17	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 buried	advcl
18	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	19 cut	advmod
19	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 having	xcomp
20	off	off	ADP	_	19 cut	compound:prt
21	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 wings	nmod:poss
22	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 cut	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 attached	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 attached	cc
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 attached	punct
26	attached	attach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 buried	conj
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 attached	obj
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 herself	case
29	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 attached	obl
30	so	so	ADV	_	33 walk	advmod
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 walk	mark
32	to	to	PART	_	33 walk	mark
33	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 attached	advcl
34	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	35 lightly	advmod
35	lightly	lightly	ADV	_	33 walk	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 walk	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 walk	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	gerund	the princess not said here						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	rider					dead property	tree rules
3	bury	past	the princess	rider		the earth	then		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in earth=Destination
4	have	gerund	the princess not said here						tree rules
5	cut off	participle	the princess not said here	rider's wings				first property	vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector wing=Eventuality
6	attach in a quote	past	the princess not said here	wings = wing	princess				vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent they=Patient to herself=Co-Patient
7	walk in a quote	to-infinitive	the princess not said here					lightly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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