Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 45
After this the fair maiden untied her bundle, and in it were gold and silver dishes: she had carried them off from the devils.
Who acts: bundle, devil · What happens: untie, be, carry off · To what, where: bundle, gold, dishes
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bundle, devil), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 5 maiden | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 maiden | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 maiden | det |
| 4 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 maiden | amod |
| 5 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 untied | obl |
| 6 | untied | untie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 bundle | nmod:poss |
| 8 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 untied | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 gold | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 gold | cc |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 gold | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gold | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 gold | cop |
| 14 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 untied | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 dishes | cc |
| 16 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dishes | compound |
| 17 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 gold | conj |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 carried | punct |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 carried | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 carried | aux |
| 21 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 untied | parataxis |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 carried | obj |
| 23 | off | off | ADP | _ | 21 carried | compound:prt |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 devils | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 devils | det |
| 26 | devils | devil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 carried | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 untied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | untie | past | devil's bundle | after the fair maiden | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bundle=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | bundle | gold and silver dishes | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | carry off | past · perfect | devil | dishes = dish | from the devils | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent they=Theme from devil=Initial_Location |
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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