Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 8, sentence 218

No. 31) the man on whom the pike has bestowed supernatural power uses it to turn a Maiden princess into a mother.

What happens: bestow, use, turn · To what, where: pike, power, Maiden princess

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	No.	no.	NOUN	Abbr=Yes Number=Sing	2 31	compound
2	31	31	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
3	)	)	PUNCT	_	2 31	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 31	appos
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 whom	case
7	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 uses	obl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 pike	det
9	pike	pike	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bestowed	nsubj:pass
10	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 bestowed	aux
11	bestowed	bestow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 whom	acl:relcl
12	supernatural	supernatural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 power	amod
13	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bestowed	obj
14	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 man	acl:relcl
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 uses	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 turn	mark
17	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 uses	advcl
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 princess	det
19	Maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 princess	amod
20	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 turn	obj
21	into	into	ADP	_	23 mother	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 mother	det
23	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 turn	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 31	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bestow	present · perfect · passive	the pike		tree rules
2	use	present	power	on the man	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	turn	to-infinitive	a Maiden princess	into a mother result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent princess=Theme into mother=Result

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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