Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 49
One day a tress of her perfumed hair floats down the river, and is taken to the King of Egypt.
Who acts: tress · What happens: perfume, float, take · To what, where: river
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tress), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 floats | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 tress | det |
| 4 | tress | tress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 floats | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 hair | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 hair | nmod:poss |
| 7 | perfumed | perfume | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 hair | amod |
| 8 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tress | nmod |
| 9 | floats | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 river | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 river | det |
| 12 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 floats | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 taken | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 taken | cc |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 taken | aux:pass |
| 16 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 floats | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 King | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 King | det |
| 19 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 taken | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Egypt | case |
| 21 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 King | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 floats | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perfume | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | float | present | a tress of tress's perfumed hair | the river | day | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down river=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | take | present · passive | a tress of tress's perfumed hair not said here | to the King of Egypt result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: to king=Result |
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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