Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 121

Presently she finds an old witch who is sitting before a fire, above which seethes a cauldron. "

Who acts: princess, old witch · What happens: find, sit, seethe · To what, where: old witch, fire, cauldron

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, old witch), 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	Presently	presently	ADV	_	3 finds	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 finds	nsubj
3	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 witch	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 witch	amod
6	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 finds	obj
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 sitting	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 sitting	aux
9	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 witch	acl:relcl
10	before	before	ADP	_	12 fire	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 fire	det
12	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sitting	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 seethes	punct
14	above	above	ADP	_	15 which	case
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 seethes	nsubj
16	seethes	seethe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 finds	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 cauldron	det
18	cauldron	cauldron	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 seethes	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 finds	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 finds	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	present	princess	a old witch		presently property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Topic
2	sit	present · progressive	a old witch		a fire		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before fire=Location
3	seethe	present		a cauldron			vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location cauldron=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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