Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 119
In a fourth (No. 68) it imprisons "a fair maiden, shining like the sun," whom the demon proprietor of the castle has hung up within it by her hair.
Who acts: third, fair maiden, hair · What happens: imprison, shine, hang up · To what, where: demon proprietor
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 (third, fair maiden, hair), 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 | _ | 3 fourth | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 fourth | det |
| 3 | fourth | fourth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 5 No. | punct |
| 5 | No. | no. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 3 fourth | appos |
| 6 | 68 | 68 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 No. | flat |
| 7 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 No. | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 imprisons | nsubj |
| 9 | imprisons | imprison | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fourth | conj |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 maiden | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 maiden | det |
| 12 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 maiden | amod |
| 13 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 imprisons | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 shining | punct |
| 15 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 maiden | acl |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 sun | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sun | det |
| 18 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shining | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 whom | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 whom | punct |
| 21 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 hung | obl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 proprietor | det |
| 23 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 proprietor | compound |
| 24 | proprietor | proprietor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 hung | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 castle | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 castle | det |
| 27 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 proprietor | nmod |
| 28 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 hung | aux |
| 29 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 maiden | parataxis |
| 30 | up | up | ADP | _ | 29 hung | compound:prt |
| 31 | within | within | ADP | _ | 32 it | case |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 hung | obl |
| 33 | by | by | ADP | _ | 35 hair | case |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 hair | nmod:poss |
| 35 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 hung | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fourth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imprison | third | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | shine in a quote | gerund | a fair maiden not said here | like the sun | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hang up | present · perfect · passive | sun's hair | the demon proprietor of the castle | within third; a fair maiden obl | vn poison-42.2 «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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