Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 140
Our King is giving his son in marriage to a rich princess: one must go to the palace to serve up the dinner to the young couple."
Who acts: King, one · What happens: give, go, serve up · To what, where: son, marriage, palace, dinner, young couple
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 (King, 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 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 King | nmod:poss |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 giving | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 giving | aux |
| 4 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 son | nmod:poss |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 giving | iobj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 marriage | case |
| 8 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 giving | obl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 princess | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 princess | det |
| 11 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 princess | amod |
| 12 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 giving | obl |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 go | punct |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 go | nsubj |
| 15 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 go | aux |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 giving | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 palace | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 palace | det |
| 19 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 go | obl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 serve | mark |
| 21 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 go | advcl |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 serve | compound:prt |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 dinner | det |
| 24 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 serve | obj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 couple | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 couple | det |
| 27 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 couple | amod |
| 28 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 serve | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 go | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · progressive | Our King | King's son | marriage | to a rich princess | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent son=Theme to princess=Recipient | ||
| 2 | go | must | one | the palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | serve up | to-infinitive | one not said here | the dinner | the young couple | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent dinner=Theme to couple=Recipient |
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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