Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 92
The princesses of the copper, silver, and golden realms, are usually represented as united by no ties of consanguinity with the snake or other monster whom the hero comes to kill.
Who acts: hero · What happens: represent, unite, come, kill · To what, where: princesses, other monster
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), 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 princesses | det |
| 2 | princesses | princess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 represented | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 copper | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 copper | det |
| 5 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 princesses | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 silver | punct |
| 7 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 copper | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 realms | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 realms | cc |
| 10 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 realms | amod |
| 11 | realms | realm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 princesses | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 princesses | punct |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 represented | aux:pass |
| 14 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 15 represented | advmod |
| 15 | represented | represent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 united | mark |
| 17 | united | unite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 represented | advcl |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 ties | case |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 ties | det |
| 20 | ties | tie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 united | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 consanguinity | case |
| 22 | consanguinity | consanguinity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ties | nmod |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 snake | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 snake | det |
| 25 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 consanguinity | nmod |
| 26 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 monster | cc |
| 27 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 monster | amod |
| 28 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 snake | conj |
| 29 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 comes | obj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 hero | det |
| 31 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 comes | nsubj |
| 32 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 monster | acl:relcl |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 kill | mark |
| 34 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 comes | xcomp |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 represented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | represent | present · passive | the princesses of the copper and silver and golden realms | usually property | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | unite | participle | by no ties of consanguinity with the snake or other monster | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | come | present | the hero | other monster | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | kill | to-infinitive | the hero not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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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