Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 155

Against the advice of his "heroic steed," he picks up the feather and takes it to the king, who sends him in search of the bird itself.

Who acts: Ptitsa, king · What happens: pick up, take, send, search · To what, where: feather, steed, king, Ptitsa, search, bird

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 (Ptitsa, 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	Against	against	ADP	_	3 advice	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 advice	det
3	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 picks	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 steed	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 steed	nmod:poss
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 steed	punct
7	heroic	heroic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 steed	amod
8	steed	steed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 advice	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 advice	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 picks	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 picks	nsubj
12	picks	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 picks	compound:prt
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 feather	det
15	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 picks	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 takes	cc
17	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 picks	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 takes	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 king	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 king	det
21	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 takes	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sends	punct
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 sends	nsubj
24	sends	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 king	acl:relcl
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 sends	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 search	case
27	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sends	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 bird	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 bird	det
30	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 search	nmod
31	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	30 bird	nmod:unmarked
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 picks	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	pick up	present	Ptitsa	the feather			against the advice of Ptitsa's heroic steed	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Topic
2	take	present	Ptitsa not said here	steed	the king			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to king=Destination
3	send	present	the king	Ptitsa		search of the bird search		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in search=Destination
4	search			the bird search				nom search «act transitive»: of=patient

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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