Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 36
In it lived a king's daughter who had been carried off by Koshchei the Deathless.
Who acts: house, Koshchei · What happens: live, carry off · To what, where: daughter
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 (house, Koshchei), 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 | In | in | SCONJ | _ | 3 lived | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lived | nsubj |
| 3 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 king | case |
| 7 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lived | obl |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 carried | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 carried | aux:pass |
| 11 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 daughter | acl:relcl |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 carried | compound:prt |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 Koshchei | case |
| 14 | Koshchei | Koshchei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 carried | obl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Deathless | det |
| 16 | Deathless | Deathless | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Koshchei | appos |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | house | a king's daughter | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | carry off | past · perfect · passive | Koshchei | a king's daughter | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
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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