Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 123
Of course he does so, and finds three chambers, in each of which lies the lifeless form of a fair maiden.
Who acts: lifeless form · What happens: find, lie, form · To what, where: three chambers, each, fair maiden
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 (lifeless form), 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 | Of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 4 does | advmod |
| 2 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Of | fixed |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 does | nsubj |
| 4 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 lies | aux |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 does | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 finds | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 finds | cc |
| 8 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 does | conj |
| 9 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 chambers | nummod |
| 10 | chambers | chamber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 finds | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 each | punct |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 each | case |
| 13 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 finds | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 which | case |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 each | nmod |
| 16 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 form | det |
| 18 | lifeless | lifeless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 form | amod |
| 19 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lies | nsubj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 maiden | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 maiden | det |
| 22 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 maiden | amod |
| 23 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 form | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 lies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | the lifeless form of a fair maiden not said here | three chambers | each | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chamber=Topic | |||
| 2 | lie | present · do-support | the lifeless form of a fair maiden | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | form | a fair maiden | nom form «communication 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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