Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 36
Most of the variants represent the Prince as forgiving his brothers, and allowing them to marry two of the three princesses, but the present version appears to keep closer to its original, in which the prince doubtless married all three.
Who acts: Most, present version, prince doubtless · What happens: represent, forgive, allow, marry, appear, keep · To what, where: Prince, brothers, two, three
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 (Most, present version, prince doubtless), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 represent | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 variants | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 variants | det |
| 4 | variants | variant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Most | nmod |
| 5 | represent | represent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Prince | det |
| 7 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 represent | obj |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 forgiving | mark |
| 9 | forgiving | forgive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 represent | advcl |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 11 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 forgiving | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 allowing | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 allowing | cc |
| 14 | allowing | allow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 forgiving | conj |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 allowing | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 marry | mark |
| 17 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 allowing | advcl |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 marry | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 princesses | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 princesses | det |
| 21 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 princesses | nummod |
| 22 | princesses | princess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 two | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 appears | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 appears | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 version | det |
| 26 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 version | amod |
| 27 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 appears | nsubj |
| 28 | appears | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 represent | conj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 keep | mark |
| 30 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 appears | xcomp |
| 31 | closer | close | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 30 keep | advmod |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 original | case |
| 33 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 original | nmod:poss |
| 34 | original | original | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 keep | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 married | punct |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 which | case |
| 37 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 married | obl |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 doubtless | det |
| 39 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 doubtless | compound |
| 40 | doubtless | doubtless | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 married | nsubj |
| 41 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 keep | advcl |
| 42 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 43 three | det |
| 43 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 41 married | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 represent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | represent | present | Most of the variants | the Prince | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot prince=Theme | ||||
| 2 | forgive | gerund | Most of the variants not said here | Prince's brothers | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme | ||||
| 3 | allow | gerund | Most of the variants not said here | brothers = brother | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | marry | to-infinitive | Most of the variants not said here | two of the three princesses | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=Patient | ||||
| 5 | appear | present | the present version | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 6 | keep | to-infinitive | the present version not said here | to version's original; close property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | marry | past | the prince doubtless | all three | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent three=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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