Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 79
Ivan gets possession of the egg, and the friendly witch contrives to have it placed before the Queen-Maiden at dinner.
Who acts: Ivan, friendly witch, possession · What happens: get, contrive, have, place, possess · To what, where: possession, dinner, egg
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 (Ivan, friendly witch, possession), 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 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 gets | nsubj |
| 2 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gets | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 egg | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 egg | det |
| 6 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 possession | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 contrives | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 contrives | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 witch | det |
| 10 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 witch | amod |
| 11 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 contrives | nsubj |
| 12 | contrives | contrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 gets | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 have | mark |
| 14 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 contrives | xcomp |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 have | obj |
| 16 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 have | xcomp |
| 17 | before | before | ADP | _ | 21 Maiden | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Maiden | det |
| 19 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Maiden | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 Maiden | punct |
| 21 | Maiden | Maiden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 placed | obl |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 dinner | case |
| 23 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 placed | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gets | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | Ivan | possession of the egg | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer possession=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | contrive | present | the friendly witch | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | have | to-infinitive | the friendly witch not said here | possession | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | place | participle | possession not said here | dinner | before the Queen Maiden | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent before maiden=Destination | |||
| 5 | possess | the egg | nom possession «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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