Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 50
He determines to make its owner his queen, and she, like Rhodope or Cinderella, is sought for far and wide.
Who acts: king · What happens: determine, make, seek · To what, where: owner, tress
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 (king), 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 determines | nsubj |
| 2 | determines | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 make | mark |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 determines | xcomp |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 owner | nmod:poss |
| 6 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 make | obj |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 queen | nmod:poss |
| 8 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 make | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sought | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 sought | cc |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 sought | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Rhodope | punct |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 Rhodope | case |
| 14 | Rhodope | Rhodope | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 she | appos |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 Cinderella | cc |
| 16 | Cinderella | Cinderella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Rhodope | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Rhodope | punct |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 sought | aux:pass |
| 19 | sought | seek | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 determines | parataxis |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 far | case |
| 21 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 sought | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 wide | cc |
| 23 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 sought | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 determines | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | determine | present | king | vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | king not said here | river's owner | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset owner=Beneficiary queen=Product | ||||
| 3 | seek | present · passive | tress | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Location for far=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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