Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 135

And this time they found a place wherein was water pure and cool, and around grew wondrous trees, whereon heavenly birds sat singing.

Who acts: Apostles, heavenly birds · What happens: find, be, grow, sit, sing · To what, where: place, wondrous trees

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Apostles, heavenly birds), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 found	cc
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 found	obl:unmarked
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 found	nsubj
5	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 place	det
7	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 found	obj
8	wherein	wherein	ADV	PronType=Int	11 pure	advmod
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 pure	cop
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pure	compound
11	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 found	advcl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 cool	cc
13	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 pure	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 grew	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 grew	cc
16	around	around	ADV	_	17 grew	advmod
17	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 found	conj
18	wondrous	wondrous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 trees	amod
19	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 grew	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sat	punct
21	whereon	whereon	ADV	PronType=Int	24 sat	advmod
22	heavenly	heavenly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 birds	amod
23	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 sat	nsubj
24	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 grew	conj
25	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 sat	advcl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	Apostles = apostle	a place	time		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic
2	is	past	Apostles = apostle not said here			pure, wherein property	tree rules
3	be		Apostles = apostle not said here				tree rules
4	grow	past	Apostles = apostle not said here	wondrous trees		around property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tree=Theme
5	sit	past	heavenly birds			whereon property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	sing speech: express	gerund	heavenly birds not said here				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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