Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7, sentence 19

On arriving in their realm he soon found what he wanted, in the person of a girl who had drunk herself to death, and who, in common with other women who had died of drink, was employed by the devils as a water carrier.

Who acts: peasant, girl, other women, devils · What happens: arrive, find, want, drink, die, employ · To what, where: realm, girl · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (peasant, girl, other women, devils), 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	On	on	SCONJ	_	2 arriving	mark
2	arriving	arrive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 found	advcl
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 realm	case
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 realm	nmod:poss
5	realm	realm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 arriving	obl
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 found	nsubj
7	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 found	advmod
8	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 wanted	obj
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 wanted	nsubj
11	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 found	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 person	punct
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 person	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 person	det
15	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wanted	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 girl	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 girl	det
18	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 person	nmod
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 drunk	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 drunk	aux
21	drunk	drink	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 girl	acl:relcl
22	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 drunk	obj
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 death	case
24	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 drunk	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 common	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 common	cc
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 common	nsubj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 common	punct
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 common	case
30	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 found	conj
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 women	case
32	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 women	amod
33	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 common	obl
34	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 died	nsubj
35	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 died	aux
36	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 women	acl:relcl
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 drink	case
38	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 died	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 employed	punct
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 employed	aux:pass
41	employed	employ	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 found	conj
42	by	by	ADP	_	44 devils	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 devils	det
44	devils	devil	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 employed	obl
45	as	as	ADP	_	48 carrier	case
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 carrier	det
47	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 carrier	compound
48	carrier	carrier	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 employed	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	arrive	gerund	peasant not said here		friends's realm		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	find	past	peasant			soon property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	want	past	peasant			in the person of a girl	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
4	drink	past · perfect	a girl	girl		to death	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient
5	die	past · perfect	other women			of drink	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of drink=Causer
6	employ	past · passive	the devils			as a water carrier	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as carrier=Attribute

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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