Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 5, sentence 50

[407] The _kosa_ or single braid in which Russian girls wear their hair.

Who acts: Russian girls · What happens: wear · To what, where: hair, single braid

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Russian girls), 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	[	[	PUNCT	_	2 407	punct
2	407	407	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 407	punct
4	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 kosa	det
5	_	_	PUNCT	_	6 kosa	punct
6	kosa	kosa	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 407	nmod:unmarked
7	_	_	PUNCT	_	6 kosa	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 braid	cc
9	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 braid	amod
10	braid	braid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kosa	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 which	case
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 wear	obl
13	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 girls	amod
14	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 wear	nsubj
15	wear	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 braid	acl:relcl
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 hair	nmod:poss
17	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wear	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 407	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	present	Russian girls	girls's hair		single braid			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent hair=Source

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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