Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, sentence 66
The Princess appears, takes him by the hand, kisses him on the crown of his head, wipes the dirt off him, and leads him home, still inebriated but no longer impecunious.
Who acts: Princess · What happens: appear, take, kiss, wipe, lead, inebriate · To what, where: merchant, crown, dirt, head
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 (Princess), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Princess | det |
| 2 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 appears | nsubj |
| 3 | appears | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 takes | punct |
| 5 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 appears | conj |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 takes | obj |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 hand | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hand | det |
| 9 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 takes | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 kisses | punct |
| 11 | kisses | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 appears | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 kisses | obj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 crown | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 crown | det |
| 15 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 kisses | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 head | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 head | nmod:poss |
| 18 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 crown | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 wipes | punct |
| 20 | wipes | wipe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 kisses | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 dirt | det |
| 22 | dirt | dirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wipes | obj |
| 23 | off | off | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 wipes | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 leads | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 leads | cc |
| 27 | leads | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 appears | conj |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 leads | obj |
| 29 | home | home | ADV | _ | 27 leads | advmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 inebriated | punct |
| 31 | still | still | ADV | _ | 32 inebriated | advmod |
| 32 | inebriated | inebriate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 leads | parataxis |
| 33 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 36 impecunious | cc |
| 34 | no | no | ADV | _ | 35 longer | advmod |
| 35 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 36 impecunious | advmod |
| 36 | impecunious | impecunious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 inebriated | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 appears | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | present | the Princess | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | take | present | the Princess not said here | merchant | by the hand | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | |||
| 3 | kiss | present | the Princess not said here | merchant | the crown of merchant's head | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | |||
| 4 | wipe | present | the Princess not said here | the dirt | off merchant | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent dirt=Theme off he=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | lead | present | the Princess not said here | merchant | home property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 6 | inebriate | participle | still | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | crown | merchant's head | nom crown «communication 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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