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Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 53

The Witch who lives in the forest, rides the winds in a mortar, devours human flesh, lives in a hut on cocks’ legs, is one of the commonest.

Who acts: Witch · What happens: live, ride, devour, be · To what, where: forest, winds, mortar, human flesh, hut, one

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Witch), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

detnsubjnsubjacl:relclcasedetoblpunctdetobjcasedetnmodpunctconjamodobjpunctconjcasedetoblcasenmod:posscaseoblpunctcopparataxiscasedetnmodpunctrootTheDETWitchNOUNwhoPRONlivesVERBinADPtheDETforestNOUN,PUNCTridesVERBtheDETwindsNOUNinADPaDETmortarNOUN,PUNCTdevoursVERBhumanADJfleshNOUN,PUNCTlivesVERBinADPaDEThutNOUNonADPcocksNOUN’PARTlegsNOUN,PUNCTisAUXoneNUMofADPtheDETcommonestADJ.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 Witchdet
2WitchwitchNOUNNumber=Sing9 ridesnsubj
3whowhoPRONPronType=Rel4 livesnsubj
4livesliveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin2 Witchacl:relcl
5ininADP_7 forestcase
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 forestdet
7forestforestNOUNNumber=Sing4 livesobl
8,,PUNCT_2 Witchpunct
9ridesrideVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
10thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 windsdet
11windswindNOUNNumber=Plur9 ridesobj
12ininADP_14 mortarcase
13aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art14 mortardet
14mortarmortarNOUNNumber=Sing11 windsnmod
15,,PUNCT_16 devourspunct
16devoursdevourVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin9 ridesconj
17humanhumanADJDegree=Pos18 fleshamod
18fleshfleshNOUNNumber=Sing16 devoursobj
19,,PUNCT_20 livespunct
20livesliveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin9 ridesconj
21ininADP_23 hutcase
22aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art23 hutdet
23huthutNOUNNumber=Sing20 livesobl
24ononADP_27 legscase
25cockscockNOUNNumber=Plur27 legsnmod:poss
26’'sPART_25 cockscase
27legslegNOUNNumber=Plur20 livesobl
28,,PUNCT_30 onepunct
29isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin30 onecop
30oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card9 ridesparataxis
31ofofADP_33 commonestcase
32thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art33 commonestdet
33commonestcommonADJDegree=Sup30 onenmod
34..PUNCT_9 ridespunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1livepresentthe Witchthe forestvn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forest=Location
2ridepresentthe Witchthe windsa mortarvn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wind=Theme
3devourpresentthe Witch not said herehuman fleshvn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flesh=Patient
4livepresentthe Witch not said herea huton cocks's legsvn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hut=Location
5is apresentoneof the commonesttree rules

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 Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (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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