Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 64
She tells him her love for him has brought her there; and he learns that there is no hope of freeing her unless he can find out "where lies the death of the enchantress."
Who acts: princess, man, hope, enchantress · What happens: tell, bring, learn, be, free, find out · To what, where: love, man, princess, death · Speech: someone speaks here
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, hope, enchantress), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 tells | nsubj |
| 2 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 tells | iobj |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 love | nmod:poss |
| 5 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tells | obj |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 brought | mark |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 brought | aux |
| 9 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 tells | ccomp |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 brought | obj |
| 11 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 brought | advmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 learns | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 learns | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 learns | nsubj |
| 15 | learns | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 tells | conj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 is | mark |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 is | expl |
| 18 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 learns | advcl |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 hope | det |
| 20 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 is | nsubj |
| 21 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 22 freeing | mark |
| 22 | freeing | free | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 hope | acl |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 freeing | obj |
| 24 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 27 find | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 find | nsubj |
| 26 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 find | aux |
| 27 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 learns | advcl |
| 28 | out | out | ADP | _ | 27 find | compound:prt |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 find | punct |
| 30 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 31 lies | advmod |
| 31 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 find | advcl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 death | det |
| 33 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 lies | obj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 enchantress | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 enchantress | det |
| 36 | enchantress | enchantress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 death | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tells | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 tells | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | princess | princess's love | man | tree rules | |||
| 2 | bring | present · perfect · passive | man | there | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | learn | present | man | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | be | present | no hope | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | free | gerund | no hope not said here | princess | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer her=Source | ||||
| 6 | find out a condition, not said to happen | can | man | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | lie in a quote | present | man not said here | the death of the enchantress | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location death=Theme | ||||
| 8 | love | princess | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 9 | die in a quote | the enchantress | nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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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