Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 112
The first was the Princess Marya, the second the Princess Olga, the third the Princess Anna.
Who acts: first · What happens: be · To what, where: Princess Marya
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first), 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 first | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 Marya | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Marya | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Marya | det |
| 5 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Marya | compound |
| 6 | Marya | Marya | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Olga | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 second | det |
| 9 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 Olga | nsubj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Olga | det |
| 11 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Olga | compound |
| 12 | Olga | Olga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Marya | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Anna | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 third | det |
| 15 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 18 Anna | nsubj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Anna | det |
| 17 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Anna | compound |
| 18 | Anna | Anna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Marya | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Marya | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the first | the Princess Marya and the Princess Olga and the Princess Anna | 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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