Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 80

They all obeyed except this bird, which refused to fulfil its duty, saying that it had no need of seas, lakes or rivers, to slake its thirst.

Who acts: birds, bird, earth · What happens: obey, refuse, not fulfil, say, have, slake · To what, where: duty, need, thirst, seas · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (birds, bird, earth), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 obeyed	nsubj
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 obeyed	advmod
3	obeyed	obey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	except	except	ADP	_	6 bird	case
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 bird	det
6	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 obeyed	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 refused	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 refused	nsubj
9	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bird	acl:relcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 fulfil	mark
11	fulfil	fulfil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 refused	xcomp
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 duty	nmod:poss
13	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fulfil	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 saying	punct
15	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 fulfil	advcl
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 had	mark
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 had	nsubj
18	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 saying	ccomp
19	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	20 need	det
20	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 had	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 seas	case
22	seas	sea	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 need	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 lakes	punct
24	lakes	lake	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 seas	conj
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 rivers	cc
26	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 seas	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 slake	punct
28	to	to	PART	_	29 slake	mark
29	slake	slake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 had	conj
30	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 thirst	nmod:poss
31	thirst	thirst	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 slake	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 obeyed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	obey	past	birds = bird		except this bird	vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	refuse	past	this bird			vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	not fulfil	to-infinitive	this bird not said here	earth's duty		tree rules
4	say speech: assert	gerund	this bird not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	have	past	earth	no need of seas and lakes or rivers		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent need=Patient
6	slake	to-infinitive	earth not said here	earth's thirst		vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thirst=Patient
7	need			seas and lakes or rivers		nom need «state transitive»: of=patient
8	thirst		earth			nom thirst «state intransitive»: poss=agent

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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