Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 71

[431] The flesh of the horse is considered unclean, because when the infant Saviour was hidden in the manger the horse kept eating the hay under which the babe was concealed, whereas the ox not only would not touch it, but brought back hay on its horns to replace what the horse had eaten.

Who acts: horse, ox · What happens: consider, hide, keep, eat, conceal, not touch · To what, where: flesh, infant Saviour, manger, hay, babe, horns

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 (horse, ox), 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	_	2 431	punct
2	431	431	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 considered	obl
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 431	punct
4	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 flesh	det
5	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 considered	nsubj:pass
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 horse	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 horse	det
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flesh	nmod
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 considered	aux:pass
10	considered	consider	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	unclean	unclean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 considered	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 hidden	punct
13	because	because	SCONJ	_	19 hidden	mark
14	when	when	SCONJ	_	19 hidden	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Saviour	det
16	infant	infant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Saviour	amod
17	Saviour	Saviour	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 hidden	nsubj:pass
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 hidden	aux:pass
19	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 considered	conj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 manger	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 manger	det
22	manger	manger	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 kept	obl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 horse	det
24	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 kept	nsubj
25	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 hidden	advcl
26	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 kept	xcomp
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 hay	det
28	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 eating	obj
29	under	under	ADP	_	30 which	case
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 concealed	obl
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 babe	det
32	babe	babe	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 concealed	nsubj:pass
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 concealed	aux:pass
34	concealed	conceal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 hay	acl:relcl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 ox	punct
36	whereas	whereas	SCONJ	_	38 ox	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 ox	det
38	ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 concealed	obl
39	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	43 touch	advmod
40	only	only	ADV	_	43 touch	advmod
41	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 touch	aux
42	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	43 touch	advmod
43	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 ox	acl:relcl
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 touch	obj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 brought	punct
46	but	but	CCONJ	_	47 brought	cc
47	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 considered	conj
48	back	back	ADV	_	47 brought	advmod
49	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 brought	obj
50	on	on	ADP	_	52 horns	case
51	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 horns	nmod:poss
52	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 brought	obl
53	to	to	PART	_	54 replace	mark
54	replace	replace	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 brought	advcl
55	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	59 eaten	obl
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 horse	det
57	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 eaten	nsubj:pass
58	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 eaten	aux
59	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	54 replace	ccomp
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 considered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	consider	present · passive		the flesh of the horse		431 obl; unclean property	vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute
2	hide	past · passive		the infant Saviour			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	keep	past	the horse		the manger		tree rules
4	eat	gerund	the horse not said here	the hay			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hay=Patient
5	conceal	past · passive		the babe	the hay	whereas the ox	vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient under which=Location
6	not touch	would	the ox not said here	babe			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme
7	bring back	past		hay	babe's horns		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hay=Theme on horn=Destination
8	replace	to-infinitive					tree rules
9	eat	past · perfect · passive		the horse			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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