Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 60
And he came up with the fair Princess Marya Morevna as she was going her way, laid hold of her, and carried her off home with him.
Who acts: Thanks, Marya · What happens: come up, go, lay, carry off, hold · To what, where: way, hold, Marya
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 (Thanks, Marya), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg22373:1300): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 came | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 Princess | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Princess | det |
| 7 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Princess | amod |
| 8 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 9 | Marya | Marya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Princess | appos |
| 10 | Morevna | Morevna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Marya | flat |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 going | mark |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 going | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 going | aux |
| 14 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 came | advcl |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 way | nmod:poss |
| 16 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 going | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 laid | punct |
| 18 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 19 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 laid | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 her | case |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 hold | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 carried | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 carried | cc |
| 24 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 carried | obj |
| 26 | off | off | ADP | _ | 24 carried | compound:prt |
| 27 | home | home | ADV | _ | 24 carried | advmod |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 him | case |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 carried | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come up | past | Thanks | with the fair Princess | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past · progressive | Marya | Marya's way | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lay | past | Thanks not said here | hold of Marya | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Result | ||||
| 4 | carry off | past | Thanks not said here | Marya | with Thanks; home property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 5 | hold | Marya | nom hold «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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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