Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 83

But when the Troyan Andromeda was exposed on the shore of the lake, a Perseus arrived to save her in the form of St. George.

Who acts: Perseus · What happens: expose, arrive, save, form · To what, where: Troyan Andromeda, shore, Perseus, form, George

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Perseus), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	17 arrived	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	7 exposed	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Andromeda	det
4	Troyan	Troyan	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Andromeda	compound
5	Andromeda	Andromeda	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 exposed	nsubj:pass
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 exposed	aux:pass
7	exposed	expose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 arrived	advcl
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 shore	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 shore	det
10	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 exposed	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 lake	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 lake	det
13	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shore	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 arrived	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 Perseus	det
16	Perseus	Perseus	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 arrived	nsubj
17	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	to	to	PART	_	19 save	mark
19	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 arrived	xcomp
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 save	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 form	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 form	det
23	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 save	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 George	case
25	St.	St.	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 George	nmod:desc
26	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 form	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 arrived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	expose	past · passive		the Troyan Andromeda	the shore of the lake	vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
2	arrive	past	a Perseus			tree rules
3	save	to-infinitive	a Perseus not said here	Perseus	the form of George St.	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
4	form			George St.		nom form «communication transitive»: of=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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