Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 61
Presently he finds himself in a different world, wherein he meets a beauteous maiden who explains everything to him.
Who acts: hero, beauteous maiden · What happens: find, meet, explain · To what, where: hero, different world, beauteous maiden, everything
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 (hero, beauteous maiden), 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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 3 finds | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 finds | nsubj |
| 3 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 finds | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 world | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 world | det |
| 7 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 world | amod |
| 8 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 finds | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 meets | punct |
| 10 | wherein | wherein | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 meets | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 meets | nsubj |
| 12 | meets | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 finds | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 maiden | det |
| 14 | beauteous | beauteous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 maiden | amod |
| 15 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 meets | obj |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 explains | nsubj |
| 17 | explains | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 maiden | acl:relcl |
| 18 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 17 explains | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 explains | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 finds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | hero | hero | a different world | presently property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic | ||
| 2 | meet | present | hero | a beauteous maiden | wherein property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maiden=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | explain speech: assert | present | a beauteous maiden | everything | hero | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent everything=Topic to he=Recipient |
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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