Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 52
So the wife rescued her husband, and brought him back from the devils into the free light.
Who acts: wife · What happens: rescue, bring back · To what, where: husband, free light
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 rescued | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wife | det |
| 3 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rescued | nsubj |
| 4 | rescued | rescue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 husband | nmod:poss |
| 6 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rescued | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 brought | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 brought | cc |
| 9 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rescued | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 brought | obj |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 brought | advmod |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 devils | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 devils | det |
| 14 | devils | devil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 brought | obl |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 light | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 light | det |
| 17 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 light | amod |
| 18 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 brought | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rescued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rescue | past | the wife | wife's husband | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bring back | past | the wife not said here | husband | the free light | from the devils | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into light=Destination |
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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