Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 129
At last, contrary to her express commands, he ventures to touch a picture of a Vidyadhari.
Who acts: husband, Kandarpaketu · What happens: touch, command · To what, where: picture, last · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (husband, Kandarpaketu), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 touch | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 contrary | punct |
| 4 | contrary | contrary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 last | conj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 commands | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 commands | nmod:poss |
| 7 | express | express | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 commands | amod |
| 8 | commands | command | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 contrary | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 last | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 touch | nsubj |
| 11 | ventures | venture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 he | nmod:unmarked |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 touch | mark |
| 13 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 picture | det |
| 15 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 touch | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Vidyadhari | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 Vidyadhari | det |
| 18 | Vidyadhari | Vidyadhari | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 picture | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 touch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | to-infinitive | husband | a picture of a Vidyadhari | last | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme picture=Co-Theme | |||
| 2 | command | Kandarpaketu | nom command «communication transitive»: 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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