Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 87
He himself marries the terrible heroine Anastasia the Fair, in the forbidden chamber of whose palace he finds a snake "hung up by one of its ribs."
Who acts: apology · What happens: marry, forbid, find, hang up · To what, where: terrible heroine, snake · 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 (apology), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 marries | nsubj |
| 2 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 1 He | nmod:unmarked |
| 3 | marries | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 heroine | det |
| 5 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 heroine | amod |
| 6 | heroine | heroine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 marries | obj |
| 7 | Anastasia | Anastasia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 heroine | appos |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Fair | det |
| 9 | Fair | Fair | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Anastasia | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 chamber | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 chamber | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 chamber | det |
| 13 | forbidden | forbid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 chamber | amod |
| 14 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 marries | parataxis |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 palace | case |
| 16 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 17 palace | nmod:poss |
| 17 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 finds | obl |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 finds | nsubj |
| 19 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 chamber | parataxis |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 snake | det |
| 21 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hung | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 hung | punct |
| 23 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 finds | ccomp |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 hung | compound:prt |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 one | case |
| 26 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 hung | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 ribs | case |
| 28 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 ribs | nmod:poss |
| 29 | ribs | rib | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 one | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 marries | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 marries | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | present | apology | the terrible heroine | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heroine=Patient | ||||
| 2 | forbid | participle | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer | ||||||
| 3 | find | present | apology | of palace | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hang up in a quote | participle · passive | a snake | by one of Fair's ribs | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme by one=Destination |
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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