Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 61
A prince has loved and lost a princess, who is so beautiful that no man can look at her without fainting.
Who acts: princess, man · What happens: love, lose, be, look, faint · To what, where: prince, princess
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 (princess, man), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 loved | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 loved | aux |
| 4 | loved | love | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 lost | cc |
| 6 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 loved | conj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 princess | det |
| 8 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lost | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 beautiful | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 beautiful | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 beautiful | cop |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 beautiful | advmod |
| 13 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 princess | acl:relcl |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 look | mark |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 man | det |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 look | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 look | aux |
| 18 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 beautiful | advcl |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 her | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 look | obl |
| 21 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 22 fainting | mark |
| 22 | fainting | faint | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 look | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 loved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | present · perfect · passive | a prince | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | lose | past | a princess | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | is | present | a princess | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | look | can | no man | at princess | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at her=Theme | ||||
| 5 | faint | gerund | no man not said here | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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