Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 146

When the cocks crow on the third morning, the demons will give her back her dead child.

Who acts: cocks, demons · What happens: crow, give back · To what, where: dead child

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cocks, demons), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 crow	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cocks	det
3	cocks	cock	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 crow	nsubj
4	crow	crow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 give	advcl
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 morning	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 morning	det
7	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 morning	amod
8	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crow	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 crow	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 demons	det
11	demons	demon	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 give	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 give	aux
13	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 give	iobj
15	back	back	ADP	_	13 give	compound:prt
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 child	nmod:poss
17	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 child	amod
18	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 give	iobj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crow	present	the cocks				morning		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	give back	future	the demons		mother's dead child				vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient child=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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