Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 75
But his stepmother throws him into a magic slumber, and the Queen-Maiden has to return home without him.
Who acts: stepmother, Queen · What happens: throw, have, return · To what, where: love, magic slumber
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 (stepmother, Queen), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 throws | cc |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 stepmother | nmod:poss |
| 3 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 throws | nsubj |
| 4 | throws | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 throws | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 slumber | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 slumber | det |
| 8 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 slumber | amod |
| 9 | slumber | slumber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 throws | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 has | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 has | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Queen | det |
| 13 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 has | nsubj |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Maiden | punct |
| 15 | Maiden | Maiden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Queen | conj |
| 16 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 throws | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 return | mark |
| 18 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 has | xcomp |
| 19 | home | home | ADV | _ | 18 return | advmod |
| 20 | without | without | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 return | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 throws | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | present | love's stepmother | love | into a magic slumber result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer he=Theme into slumber=Result | |||
| 2 | have | present | the Queen and Maiden | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | return | to-infinitive | the Queen and Maiden not said here | without love; home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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