Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 32
The youngest brother descends or ascends as the case may be, and after a series of adventures which generally lead him through the kingdoms of copper, of silver, and of gold, returns in triumph to where his brothers are awaiting him.
Who acts: youngest brother, adventures, brothers · What happens: descend, ascend, lead, return, await · To what, where: case, kingdoms, triumph
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngest brother, adventures, brothers), 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 | 3 brother | det |
| 2 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 brother | amod |
| 3 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 descends | nsubj |
| 4 | descends | descend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 ascends | cc |
| 6 | ascends | ascend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 descends | conj |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 be | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 case | det |
| 9 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 be | nsubj |
| 10 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 be | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 ascends | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 series | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 series | cc |
| 14 | after | after | ADP | _ | 16 series | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 series | det |
| 16 | series | series | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 descends | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 adventures | case |
| 18 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 series | nmod |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 lead | nsubj |
| 20 | generally | generally | ADV | _ | 21 lead | advmod |
| 21 | lead | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 adventures | acl:relcl |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 lead | obj |
| 23 | through | through | ADP | _ | 25 kingdoms | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 kingdoms | det |
| 25 | kingdoms | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 lead | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 copper | case |
| 27 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 kingdoms | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 silver | punct |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 silver | case |
| 30 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lead | parataxis |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 returns | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 returns | cc |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 gold | case |
| 34 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 returns | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 gold | punct |
| 36 | returns | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 descends | parataxis |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 triumph | case |
| 38 | triumph | triumph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 returns | obl |
| 39 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 44 awaiting | mark |
| 40 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 44 awaiting | advmod |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 42 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 awaiting | nsubj |
| 43 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 awaiting | aux |
| 44 | awaiting | await | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 36 returns | advcl |
| 45 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 awaiting | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 descends | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | descend | present | the youngest brother | after a series of adventures | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ascend | present | the youngest brother not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | lead | present | adventures | case | the kingdoms of copper | generally property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme through kingdom=Destination | ||
| 4 | return | present | triumph | of gold | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of gold=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | await | present · progressive | case's brothers | case | tree 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 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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