Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 71
The Adventures of a prince, the youngest of three brothers, who has been lowered into the underground world or who has ascended into an enchanted upper realm, form the theme of numerous skazkas, several of which are variants of the story of Norka.
Who acts: Adventures · What happens: lower, ascend, enchant, form, be, adventure · To what, where: three brothers, underground world, enchanted upper realm, theme, prince
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 (Adventures), 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 Adventures | det |
| 2 | Adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 form | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 prince | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 prince | det |
| 5 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Adventures | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 youngest | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 youngest | det |
| 8 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 Adventures | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 brothers | case |
| 10 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 brothers | nummod |
| 11 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 youngest | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lowered | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 lowered | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 lowered | aux |
| 15 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 lowered | aux:pass |
| 16 | lowered | lower | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 brothers | acl:relcl |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 world | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 world | det |
| 19 | underground | underground | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 world | amod |
| 20 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lowered | obl |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 ascended | cc |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 ascended | nsubj |
| 23 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 ascended | aux |
| 24 | ascended | ascend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 lowered | conj |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 29 realm | case |
| 26 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 realm | det |
| 27 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 realm | amod |
| 28 | upper | upper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 realm | amod |
| 29 | realm | realm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ascended | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Adventures | punct |
| 31 | form | form | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 theme | det |
| 33 | theme | theme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 form | obj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 skazkas | case |
| 35 | numerous | numerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 skazkas | amod |
| 36 | skazkas | skazka | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 theme | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 form | punct |
| 38 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 form | advcl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 variants | case |
| 40 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 variants | nsubj |
| 41 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 variants | cop |
| 42 | variants | variant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 several | obl |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 story | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 story | det |
| 45 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 variants | nmod |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 Norka | case |
| 47 | Norka | Norka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 story | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 31 form | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lower | present · perfect · passive | three brothers | the underground world | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme into world=Destination | ||||
| 2 | ascend | present · perfect | a enchanted upper realm | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into realm=Initial_Location | |||||
| 3 | enchant | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | form | infinitive | the Adventures of a prince | the theme of numerous skazkas | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location theme=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | present | of variants; of the story of Norka | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | adventure | a prince | nom adventure «act transitive»: of=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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