Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 81

Then he sprinkled them with the Waters of Life and Death--and up jumped the soldier, a finer lad than stories can describe, or pens portray!"

Who acts: soldier, pens · What happens: sprinkle, jump, describe, portray · To what, where: devils

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 (soldier, pens), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 sprinkled	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sprinkled	nsubj
3	sprinkled	sprinkle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sprinkled	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 Waters	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Waters	det
7	Waters	Water	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 sprinkled	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Life	case
9	Life	Life	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Waters	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 Death	cc
11	Death	Death	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Life	conj
12	--	--	PUNCT	_	15 jumped	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 jumped	cc
14	up	up	ADV	_	15 jumped	advmod
15	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sprinkled	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 soldier	det
17	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 describe	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 lad	punct
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 lad	det
20	finer	fine	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 lad	amod
21	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 soldier	appos
22	than	than	ADP	_	23 stories	case
23	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 lad	nmod
24	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 describe	aux
25	describe	describe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 jumped	ccomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 portray	punct
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 portray	cc
28	pens	pen	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 portray	nsubj
29	portray	portray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sprinkled	parataxis
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	29 portray	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 portray	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	sprinkle	past	soldier	devils = devil	then	with the Waters of Life and Death	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Destination with water=Theme
2	jump	past	soldier not said here				tree rules
3	describe	can	the soldier				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	portray	present	pens				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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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