Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 165
Time passed, and the news spread abroad that the bride had told her lover to fetch her her wedding-dress or else to get one made, just such a one as she wanted.
Who acts: news, bride · What happens: pass, spread, tell, fetch, get, make · To what, where: bride, lover, wedding dress, one · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (news, bride), 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 | Time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 passed | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 spread | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 spread | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 news | det |
| 6 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spread | nsubj |
| 7 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 passed | conj |
| 8 | abroad | abroad | ADV | _ | 7 spread | advmod |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 told | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bride | det |
| 11 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 told | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 told | aux |
| 13 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 spread | advcl |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 lover | nmod:poss |
| 15 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 told | iobj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 fetch | mark |
| 17 | fetch | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 told | xcomp |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 fetch | obj |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 dress | nmod:poss |
| 20 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 dress | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 wedding | punct |
| 22 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fetch | obj |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 get | cc |
| 24 | else | else | ADV | _ | 26 get | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 get | mark |
| 26 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 told | conj |
| 27 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 get | obj |
| 28 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 one | acl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 one | punct |
| 30 | just | just | ADV | _ | 33 one | advmod |
| 31 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 33 one | det:predet |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 one | det |
| 33 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 get | conj |
| 34 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 36 wanted | mark |
| 35 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 wanted | nsubj |
| 36 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 one | advcl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | participle | time | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | spread | past | the news | abroad property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | the bride | bride's lover | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | fetch not said to happen | to-infinitive | the bride not said here | bride's wedding dress | bride | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary dress=Theme | |||
| 5 | get | to-infinitive | one | else property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | make | participle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||||
| 7 | want | past | news | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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