Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 121

He consented to do so, but in the mean time he let his mother go down the ladder, as well as the Princess--whom it had been settled he was to marry when they got home.

Who acts: Ivan, mother, shoes · What happens: consent, do, let, go down, settle, be · To what, where: ladder, Princess

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ivan, mother, shoes), 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	2 consented	nsubj
2	consented	consent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 do	mark
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 consented	xcomp
5	so	so	ADV	_	4 do	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 let	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 let	cc
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 time	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 time	det
10	mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 time	amod
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 let	obl
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 let	nsubj
13	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 consented	conj
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 mother	nmod:poss
15	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 go	nsubj
16	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 let	xcomp
17	down	down	ADV	_	16 go	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 ladder	det
19	ladder	ladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 go	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 settled	punct
21	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	31 settled	cc
22	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 as	fixed
23	as	as	ADP	_	21 as	fixed
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Princess	det
25	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 settled	nsubj:pass
26	--	--	PUNCT	_	31 settled	punct
27	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 settled	obl
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 settled	nsubj:pass
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 settled	aux
30	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 settled	aux:pass
31	settled	settle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 let	xcomp
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 marry	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 marry	cop
34	to	to	PART	_	35 marry	mark
35	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 settled	parataxis
36	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	38 got	advmod
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 got	nsubj
38	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 marry	advcl
39	home	home	ADV	_	38 got	advmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 consented	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	consent	past	Ivan				vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	do	to-infinitive	Ivan not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	let	past	Ivan		time		tree rules
4	go down	infinitive	Ivan's mother	the ladder		down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	settle	past · perfect · passive		the Princess			vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: subject=Location
6	is	past	Ivan			marry property	tree rules
7	get	past	shoes = shoe			home property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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