Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 38
But as a general rule it is some queen or princess whom he tears away from her home, as Pluto carried off Proserpina, and who remains with him reluctantly, and hails as her rescuer the hero who comes to give him battle.
Who acts: rule, outline, Pluto, hero · What happens: be, tear away, carry off, remain, come, give · To what, where: queen, Proserpina, hails, battle, outline
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, 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 (rule, outline, Pluto, hero), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 queen | cc |
| 2 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 rule | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 rule | det |
| 4 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 rule | amod |
| 5 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 queen | obl |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 queen | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 queen | cop |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 queen | det |
| 9 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 princess | cc |
| 11 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 queen | conj |
| 12 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 tears | obj |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 tears | nsubj |
| 14 | tears | tear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 queen | acl:relcl |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 tears | advmod |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 home | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 home | nmod:poss |
| 18 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tears | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 carried | punct |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 carried | mark |
| 21 | Pluto | Pluto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 carried | nsubj |
| 22 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 tears | parataxis |
| 23 | off | off | ADP | _ | 24 Proserpina | case |
| 24 | Proserpina | Proserpina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 carried | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 remains | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 remains | cc |
| 27 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 remains | nsubj |
| 28 | remains | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 tears | conj |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 him | case |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 remains | obl |
| 31 | reluctantly | reluctantly | ADV | _ | 28 remains | advmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 hails | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 hails | cc |
| 34 | hails | hail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 remains | obl |
| 35 | as | as | ADP | _ | 37 rescuer | case |
| 36 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 rescuer | nmod:poss |
| 37 | rescuer | rescuer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 hails | nmod |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 hero | det |
| 39 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 rescuer | appos |
| 40 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 comes | nsubj |
| 41 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 hero | acl:relcl |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 give | mark |
| 43 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 comes | xcomp |
| 44 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 give | iobj |
| 45 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 give | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 queen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | rule | some queen or princess | as a general rule | tree rules | |||
| 2 | tear away | present | outline | some queen or princess | from princess's home; away property | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent whom=Patient from home=Co-Patient | |||
| 3 | carry off | past | Pluto | Proserpina | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent proserpina=Theme | ||||
| 4 | remain | present | hails as Pluto's rescuer | with outline; reluctantly property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | come | present | the hero | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | give | to-infinitive | the hero not said here | battle | outline | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient battle=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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