Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7, sentence 12

Meeting the soldier on his way back to the cottage, they are so frightened that they fling themselves into the pool below a mill-wheel; and there, the story declares, they still remain.

Who acts: women, story · What happens: meet, be, fling, declare, remain · To what, where: soldier, way, women, pool

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (women, story), 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	Meeting	meet	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 frightened	advcl
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 soldier	det
3	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Meeting	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 way	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 way	nmod:poss
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Meeting	obl
7	back	back	ADV	_	1 Meeting	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 cottage	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cottage	det
10	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 back	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Meeting	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 frightened	nsubj:pass
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 frightened	cop
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 frightened	advmod
15	frightened	frightened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 fling	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 fling	nsubj
18	fling	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 frightened	advcl
19	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 fling	obj
20	into	into	ADP	_	22 pool	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 pool	det
22	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fling	obl
23	below	below	ADP	_	27 wheel	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 wheel	det
25	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 wheel	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 mill	punct
27	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 pool	nmod
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 there	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 there	cc
30	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 frightened	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 declares	punct
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 story	det
33	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 declares	nsubj
34	declares	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 frightened	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 remain	punct
36	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 remain	nsubj
37	still	still	ADV	_	38 remain	advmod
38	remain	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 declares	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 frightened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet	gerund		the soldier	process's way			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=Co-Agent
2	is	present · passive		women = woman			frightened property	tree rules
3	fling	present	women = woman	women = woman	the pool below a mill wheel			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme into pool=Destination
4	declare speech: other	present	the story					vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
5	remain	present	women = woman			still		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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