Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 39
"All this mighty host has been slain by the fair Princess Marya Morevna."
Who acts: fair Marya Morevna · What happens: slay · To what, where: mighty host
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fair Marya Morevna), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 slain | punct |
| 2 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 host | det |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 host | det |
| 4 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 host | amod |
| 5 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 slain | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 slain | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 slain | aux:pass |
| 8 | slain | slay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 Morevna | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Morevna | det |
| 11 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Morevna | amod |
| 12 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Marya | compound |
| 13 | Marya | Marya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Morevna | compound |
| 14 | Morevna | Morevna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 slain | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 slain | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 slain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slay in a quote | present · perfect · passive | the fair Marya Morevna | all mighty host | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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