Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 144

These are stolen by a _Zhar-Ptitsa_ which flies every night into the garden, so he orders his sons to keep watch there by turns.

Who acts: Zhar, king · What happens: steal, fly, order, keep · To what, where: These, garden, sons, watch

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 (Zhar, king), 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	These	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 stolen	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stolen	aux:pass
3	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	7 Zhar	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 Zhar	det
6	_	_	PUNCT	_	7 Zhar	punct
7	Zhar	Zhar	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 stolen	obl
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 Ptitsa	punct
9	Ptitsa	Ptitsa	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Zhar	conj
10	_	_	PUNCT	_	12 flies	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 flies	nsubj
12	flies	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 Zhar	acl:relcl
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 night	det
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 flies	obl:unmarked
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 garden	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 garden	det
17	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 flies	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 orders	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	21 orders	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 orders	nsubj
21	orders	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stolen	conj
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 sons	nmod:poss
23	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 orders	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 keep	mark
25	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 orders	advcl
26	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 keep	obj
27	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 keep	advmod
28	by	by	ADP	_	29 turns	case
29	turns	turn	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 keep	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stolen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	present · passive	a Zhar and Ptitsa	These					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme
2	fly	present	a Zhar and Ptitsa				night	into the garden result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into garden=Result
3	order	present	king		king's sons				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme
4	keep	to-infinitive	king not said here	watch		there		by turns	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent watch=Theme by turn=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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