Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 87
At midnight the demon-enchantress arrives, dancing and "blowing on a flute made of a dead man's bone."
Who acts: demon enchantress · What happens: arrive, blow, make · To what, where: dancing, flute
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 (demon enchantress), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 midnight | case |
| 2 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 arrives | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 enchantress | det |
| 4 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 enchantress | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 demon | punct |
| 6 | enchantress | enchantress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 arrives | nsubj |
| 7 | arrives | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 dancing | punct |
| 9 | dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 arrives | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 blowing | cc |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 blowing | punct |
| 12 | blowing | blow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 dancing | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 flute | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 flute | det |
| 15 | flute | flute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 blowing | obl |
| 16 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 flute | acl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 bone | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 man | det |
| 19 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 man | amod |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bone | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 man | case |
| 22 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 made | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 arrives | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 arrives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | present | the demon enchantress | dancing | midnight | tree rules | |||
| 2 | blow in a quote | gerund | the demon enchantress not said here | a flute | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | make in a quote | participle | a flute not said here | of a dead man's bone | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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