Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8, sentence 54

It is generally a boy whom he gets into his power, and who eventually obtains the hand of one of his daughters, and escapes with her to the upper world, though not without considerable difficulty.

Who acts: part, boy · What happens: be, get, obtain, escape · To what, where: boy, power, hand, upper world

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (part, boy), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 boy	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 boy	cop
3	generally	generally	ADV	_	5 boy	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 boy	det
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 gets	obj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 gets	nsubj
8	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 boy	acl:relcl
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 power	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 power	nmod:poss
11	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gets	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 obtains	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 obtains	cc
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 obtains	nsubj
15	eventually	eventually	ADV	_	16 obtains	advmod
16	obtains	obtain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 gets	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 hand	det
18	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 obtains	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 one	case
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 hand	nmod
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 daughters	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 daughters	nmod:poss
23	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 one	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 escapes	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 escapes	cc
26	escapes	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 gets	advcl
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 her	case
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 escapes	obl
29	to	to	ADP	_	32 world	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 world	det
31	upper	upper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 world	amod
32	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 escapes	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 difficulty	punct
34	though	though	SCONJ	_	38 difficulty	mark
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 difficulty	advmod
36	without	without	ADP	_	38 difficulty	case
37	considerable	considerable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 difficulty	amod
38	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 escapes	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 boy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	part	a boy		generally property	tree rules
2	get	present	boy	a boy	boy's power		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus
3	obtain	present		the hand of one of boy's daughters		eventually property	vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
4	escape	present	boy not said here		the upper world	with daughter; without considerable difficulty	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to world=Initial_Location

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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