Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, sentence 57
In the story of the "Purchased Wife," the Princess Anastasia, the Beautiful, enables the youth Ivan, who ransoms her, to win a large sum of money in the following manner.
Who acts: youth · What happens: purchase, enable, ransom, win, follow, sum · To what, where: youth, story, Ivan, large sum, following manner, money
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 story | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 story | det |
| 3 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 enables | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Wife | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Wife | det |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Purchased | punct |
| 7 | Purchased | purchase | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 Wife | amod |
| 8 | Wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 story | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 story | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Anastasia | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Anastasia | det |
| 12 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Anastasia | compound |
| 13 | Anastasia | Anastasia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 story | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Beautiful | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Beautiful | det |
| 16 | Beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Anastasia | amod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 story | punct |
| 18 | enables | enable | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 youth | det |
| 20 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 enables | obj |
| 21 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 youth | appos |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 ransoms | punct |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 ransoms | nsubj |
| 24 | ransoms | ransom | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 youth | acl:relcl |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 ransoms | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 win | punct |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 win | mark |
| 28 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 ransoms | advcl |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 sum | det |
| 30 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 sum | amod |
| 31 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 win | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 money | case |
| 33 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 sum | nmod |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 manner | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 manner | det |
| 36 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 37 manner | amod |
| 37 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 win | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 enables | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | purchase in a quote | participle | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||||
| 2 | enable | present | the youth | the story of the Purchased Wife | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ransom | present | the youth | Ivan | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | win | to-infinitive | the youth not said here | a large sum of money | the following manner | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sum=Eventuality | |||
| 5 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | sum | money | nom sum «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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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