Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 136

But the Prince was preparing to marry a rich Princess, and orders were given to proclaim throughout the kingdom, that all Christian people were to come to congratulate the bride and bridegroom, each one bringing a wheaten pie as a present.

Who acts: Prince, Christian people, one · What happens: prepare, marry, give, proclaim, come, congratulate · To what, where: rich Princess, orders, bride, wheaten pie

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, Christian people, one), 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	_	5 preparing	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Prince	det
3	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 preparing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 preparing	aux
5	preparing	prepare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 marry	mark
7	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 preparing	xcomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 Princess	det
9	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Princess	amod
10	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 marry	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 given	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 given	cc
13	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 given	nsubj:pass
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 given	aux:pass
15	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 preparing	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 proclaim	mark
17	proclaim	proclaim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 given	xcomp
18	throughout	throughout	ADP	_	20 kingdom	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 kingdom	det
20	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 proclaim	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 come	punct
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 come	mark
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 people	det
24	Christian	Christian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 people	amod
25	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 come	nsubj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 come	aux
27	to	to	PART	_	28 come	mark
28	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 proclaim	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 congratulate	mark
30	congratulate	congratulate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 come	xcomp
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 bride	det
32	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 congratulate	obj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 bridegroom	cc
34	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 bride	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 one	punct
36	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	37 one	det
37	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 bride	appos
38	bringing	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	37 one	acl
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 pie	det
40	wheaten	wheaten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 pie	amod
41	pie	pie	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 bringing	obj
42	as	as	ADP	_	44 present	case
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 present	det
44	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 bringing	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 preparing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	prepare	past · progressive	the Prince				vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
2	marry not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Prince not said here	a rich Princess			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient
3	give	past · passive		orders			tree rules
4	proclaim	to-infinitive			throughout the kingdom		vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
5	come	past	all Christian people				tree rules
6	congratulate	to-infinitive	all Christian people not said here	the bride and bridegroom			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=Theme
7	bring	gerund	each one not said here	a wheaten pie		as a present	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent pie=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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