Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 46
In it the elder sons of a certain king wish to get rid of their younger half-brother.
What happens: get
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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 it | case |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 wish | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sons | det |
| 4 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sons | amod |
| 5 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 wish | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 wish | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 wish | det |
| 8 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 wish | amod |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wish | compound |
| 10 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 get | mark |
| 12 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 wish | acl |
| 13 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 get | xcomp |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 brother | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 brother | nmod:poss |
| 16 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 brother | amod |
| 17 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 19 brother | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 half | punct |
| 19 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rid | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | to-infinitive | rid property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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