Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 118

As the clock strikes twelve the prince, who is laden with chains, makes a rush at her; but the wings of the _Zhar-Ptitsa_ rustle around her, and he sits down again.

Who acts: clock, wings · What happens: strike, lade, make, sit down · To what, where: twelve, prince, rush

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 (clock, wings), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	4 strikes	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 clock	det
3	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 strikes	nsubj
4	strikes	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 strikes	obj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 prince	det
7	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 strikes	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 laden	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 laden	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 laden	aux:pass
11	laden	lade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 prince	acl:relcl
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 chains	case
13	chains	chain	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 laden	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 makes	punct
15	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 strikes	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 rush	det
17	rush	rush	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 makes	obj
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 her	case
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 makes	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 sits	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 sits	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 wings	det
23	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 sits	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	31 rustle	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 rustle	det
26	_	_	PUNCT	_	27 Zhar	punct
27	Zhar	Zhar	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 rustle	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 Ptitsa	punct
29	Ptitsa	Ptitsa	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Zhar	conj
30	_	_	PUNCT	_	27 Zhar	punct
31	rustle	rustle	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 wings	nmod
32	around	around	ADP	_	33 her	case
33	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 rustle	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 sits	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 sits	cc
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 sits	nsubj
37	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 strikes	conj
38	down	down	ADP	_	37 sits	compound:prt
39	again	again	ADV	_	37 sits	advmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 strikes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	strike	present	the clock	twelve			vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent twelve=Patient prince=Result
2	lade	present · passive		the prince		with chains	tree rules
3	make	present	the clock not said here	a rush		at princess	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rush=Product
4	sit down	present	the wings of the Zhar rustle around princess		again		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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