Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 77
Such a beauty as Marya Morevna one might search for all the world over--and never find one like her!"
Who acts: beauty · What happens: search, not find · To what, where: one
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 (beauty), 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 | Such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 beauty | det:predet |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 beauty | det |
| 3 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 search | nsubj |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 Morevna | case |
| 5 | Marya | Marya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Morevna | compound |
| 6 | Morevna | Morevna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 beauty | nmod |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 Morevna | flat |
| 8 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 search | aux |
| 9 | search | search | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 world | case |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 world | det:predet |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 world | det |
| 13 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 search | obl |
| 14 | over | over | ADV | _ | 9 search | advmod |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 18 find | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 find | cc |
| 17 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 18 find | advmod |
| 18 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 search | conj |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 find | obj |
| 20 | like | like | ADP | _ | 21 her | case |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 one | nmod |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 search | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 search | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | search | might | such beauty as Marya Morevna | for all world; over property | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for world=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not find | infinitive | such beauty as Marya Morevna not said here | one | like beauty | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/23/77/