Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 116

In a Greek story (Hahn, ii. p. 197) the hero discovers in the one-and-fortieth room of a castle belonging to a Drakos, who had given him leave to enter forty only, a magic horse, and before the door of the room he finds a pool of gold in which he becomes gilded.

Who acts: hero, castle, Drakos · What happens: discover, belong, give, leave, enter, find · To what, where: Greek story, hero, forty, pool

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 (hero, castle, Drakos), 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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 story	det
3	Greek	Greek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 story	amod
4	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 discovers	obl
5	(	(	PUNCT	_	6 Hahn	punct
6	Hahn	Hahn	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 story	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 ii	punct
8	ii	II	NUM	NumForm=Roman NumType=Card	6 Hahn	appos
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 Hahn	punct
10	p.	P.	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Hahn	flat
11	197	197	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 Hahn	list
12	)	)	PUNCT	_	6 Hahn	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 hero	det
14	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 discovers	nsubj
15	discovers	discover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	in	in	ADP	_	23 room	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 room	det
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 room	nsubj
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 room	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 room	cc
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 and	punct
22	fortieth	fortieth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 room	amod
23	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 discovers	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 castle	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 castle	det
26	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 room	nmod
27	belonging	belong	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 castle	acl
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 Drakos	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 Drakos	det
30	Drakos	Drakos	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 belonging	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 given	punct
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 given	nsubj
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 given	aux
34	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 Drakos	parataxis
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 given	iobj
36	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 given	xcomp
37	to	to	PART	_	38 enter	mark
38	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 leave	xcomp
39	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 enter	obj
40	only	only	ADV	_	38 enter	advmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 horse	punct
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 horse	det
43	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 horse	amod
44	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 Drakos	conj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 finds	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 finds	cc
47	before	before	ADP	_	49 door	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 door	det
49	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 finds	obl
50	of	of	ADP	_	52 room	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 room	det
52	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 door	nmod
53	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 finds	nsubj
54	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 discovers	conj
55	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	56 pool	det
56	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 finds	obj
57	of	of	ADP	_	58 gold	case
58	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 pool	nmod
59	in	in	ADP	_	60 which	case
60	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	62 becomes	obl
61	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 becomes	nsubj
62	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	56 pool	acl:relcl
63	gilded	gild	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	62 becomes	xcomp
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 discovers	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	discover	present	the hero			a Greek story		in the fortieth room of a castle	vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	belong	gerund	a castle not said here					to a Drakos and a magic horse	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
3	give	past · perfect	a Drakos and a magic horse		hero				tree rules
4	leave	infinitive	a Drakos and a magic horse not said here						tree rules
5	enter	to-infinitive	a Drakos and a magic horse not said here	forty					vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme forty=Destination
6	find	present	hero	a pool of gold			before the door of the room		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pool=Topic
7	become	present	hero			a pool of gold			tree rules
8	gild	participle	hero not said here						vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=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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