Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 33
And he is almost invariably deserted by them, as soon as they have secured the beautiful princesses who accompany him--as may be read in the following (South-Russian) history of--
Who acts: brothers, beautiful princesses · What happens: desert, secure, accompany, read, follow · To what, where: case, beautiful princesses, history, South
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 (brothers, beautiful princesses), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 deserted | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 deserted | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 deserted | aux:pass |
| 4 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 5 invariably | advmod |
| 5 | invariably | invariably | ADV | _ | 6 deserted | advmod |
| 6 | deserted | desert | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 them | case |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 deserted | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 secured | punct |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 soon | advmod |
| 11 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 secured | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 secured | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 secured | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 secured | aux |
| 15 | secured | secure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 deserted | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 princesses | det |
| 17 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 princesses | amod |
| 18 | princesses | princess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 secured | obj |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 accompany | nsubj |
| 20 | accompany | accompany | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 princesses | acl:relcl |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 accompany | obj |
| 22 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 26 read | punct |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 read | mark |
| 24 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 read | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 read | aux:pass |
| 26 | read | read | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 secured | advcl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 history | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 history | det |
| 29 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 35 history | csubj |
| 30 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 31 South | punct |
| 31 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 following | obj |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 Russian | punct |
| 33 | Russian | Russian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 South | conj |
| 34 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 31 South | punct |
| 35 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 read | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 history | case |
| 37 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 6 deserted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | desert | present · passive | brothers = brother | case | invariably property | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme subject=Source | |||
| 2 | secure | present · perfect | brothers = brother | the beautiful princesses | soon property | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition princess=Theme | |||
| 3 | accompany | present | the beautiful princesses | case | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | read | may · passive | brothers = brother not said here | the history | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V» | ||||
| 5 | follow | gerund | South and Russian | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent south=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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