Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 77
At last he learns from a friendly witch that his betrothed no longer cares for him, "her love is hidden far away."
Who acts: stepmother, queen · What happens: learn, betroth, care, hide, love · To what, where: last, friendly witch, love · 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 (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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 learns | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 learns | nsubj |
| 4 | learns | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 witch | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 witch | det |
| 7 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 witch | amod |
| 8 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 learns | obl |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 betrothed | obj |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 betrothed | nmod:poss |
| 11 | betrothed | betroth | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 witch | acl:relcl |
| 12 | no | no | ADV | _ | 13 longer | advmod |
| 13 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 cares | advmod |
| 14 | cares | care | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 betrothed | ccomp |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 cares | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 hidden | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 hidden | punct |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 love | nmod:poss |
| 20 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hidden | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 hidden | aux:pass |
| 22 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 learns | conj |
| 23 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 away | advmod |
| 24 | away | away | ADV | _ | 22 hidden | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 learns | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 learns | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | present | stepmother | last | from a friendly witch | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from witch=Source | |||
| 2 | betroth | past | a friendly witch | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | care | present | for stepmother; long property | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for he=Theme | |||||
| 4 | hide in a quote | present · passive | queen's love | away property | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 5 | love in a quote | queen | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=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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