Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 38
The king's daughter saw there was some one there, came on to the balcony, and called out to him, "See, there is a chink in the enclosure; touch it with your little finger, and it will become a door."
Who acts: daughter, one, chink · What happens: see, be, come on, call out, touch, become · To what, where: balcony, king, chink, door · 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 (daughter, one, chink), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 king | case |
| 4 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 was | expl |
| 7 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | ccomp |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 one | det |
| 9 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 was | nsubj |
| 10 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 one | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADV | _ | 12 came | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 balcony | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 balcony | det |
| 16 | balcony | balcony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 called | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 called | cc |
| 19 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 saw | conj |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 called | compound:prt |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 called | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 See | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 See | punct |
| 25 | See | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 called | advcl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 is | punct |
| 27 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 28 is | expl |
| 28 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 See | ccomp |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 chink | det |
| 30 | chink | chink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 is | nsubj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 enclosure | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 enclosure | det |
| 33 | enclosure | enclosure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 chink | nmod |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 touch | punct |
| 35 | touch | touch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | parataxis |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 touch | obj |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 finger | case |
| 38 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 finger | nmod:poss |
| 39 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 finger | amod |
| 40 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 touch | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 become | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 become | cc |
| 43 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 become | nsubj |
| 44 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 become | aux |
| 45 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 touch | conj |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 door | det |
| 47 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 become | xcomp |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 35 touch | punct |
| 49 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 touch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the king's daughter | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | be | past | some one | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come on | past | the king's daughter not said here | the balcony | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to balcony=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | call out speech: assert | participle | the king's daughter not said here | king | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | see in a quote | infinitive | the king's daughter not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | be in a quote | present | a chink in the enclosure | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | touch in a quote | infinitive | chink | with your little finger | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Theme with finger=Instrument | ||||
| 8 | become in a quote | future | chink | a door | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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