Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 107
In the Neapolitan story of "Le tre Corune" (Pentamerone, No. 36), the forbidden chamber contains "three maidens, clothed all in gold, sitting and seeming to slumber upon as many thrones" (Liebrecht's translation, ii.
Who acts: forbidden chamber, three maidens, Liebrecht · What happens: forbid, contain, clothe, sit, seem, slumber · To what, where: three maidens, Neapolitan story, gold
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (forbidden chamber, three maidens, Liebrecht), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 story | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 story | det |
| 3 | Neapolitan | Neapolitan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 story | compound |
| 4 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 contains | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Corune | case |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Corune | punct |
| 7 | Le | Le | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Corune | compound |
| 8 | tre | Tre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Corune | compound |
| 9 | Corune | Corune | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 story | nmod |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Corune | punct |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 Pentamerone | punct |
| 12 | Pentamerone | Pentamerone | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Corune | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 36 | punct |
| 14 | No. | No. | PROPN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 15 36 | nmod:unmarked |
| 15 | 36 | 36 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 Pentamerone | appos |
| 16 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 12 Pentamerone | punct |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 story | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 chamber | det |
| 19 | forbidden | forbid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 chamber | amod |
| 20 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 contains | nsubj |
| 21 | contains | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 maidens | punct |
| 23 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 maidens | nummod |
| 24 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 contains | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 clothed | punct |
| 26 | clothed | clothe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 maidens | acl |
| 27 | all | all | ADV | _ | 29 gold | advmod |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 gold | case |
| 29 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 clothed | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 sitting | punct |
| 31 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 contains | advcl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 seeming | cc |
| 33 | seeming | seem | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 sitting | conj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 slumber | mark |
| 35 | slumber | slumber | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 seeming | xcomp |
| 36 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 39 thrones | case |
| 37 | as | as | ADV | _ | 38 many | advmod |
| 38 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 thrones | amod |
| 39 | thrones | throne | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 slumber | obl |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 seeming | punct |
| 41 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 44 translation | punct |
| 42 | Liebrecht | Liebrecht | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 translation | nmod:poss |
| 43 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 42 Liebrecht | case |
| 44 | translation | translation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 contains | conj |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 ii | punct |
| 46 | ii | II | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 44 translation | appos |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 contains | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forbid | participle | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer | ||||||
| 2 | contain | present | the forbidden chamber | three maidens | the Neapolitan story of Le tre Corune | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent maiden=Value in story=Location | |||
| 3 | clothe in a quote | participle | three maidens not said here | gold | vn dress-41.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Patient | ||||
| 4 | sit in a quote | gerund | the forbidden chamber not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | seem in a quote | gerund | the forbidden chamber not said here | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 6 | slumber in a quote | to-infinitive | the forbidden chamber not said here | upon many thrones | vn snooze-40.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | translate | Liebrecht | nom translation «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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