Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 162

2 and 4) in the former of which the child is promised to a Giant, in the latter to a Mermaid.

What happens: promise · To what, where: child

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: 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	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 former	obl
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 4	cc
3	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 2	conj
4	)	)	PUNCT	_	1 2	punct
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 former	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 former	det
7	former	former	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 which	case
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 promised	obl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 child	det
11	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 promised	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 promised	aux:pass
13	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 former	parataxis
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 Giant	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 Giant	det
16	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 promised	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 latter	punct
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 latter	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 latter	det
20	latter	latter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 promised	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 Mermaid	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 Mermaid	det
23	Mermaid	Mermaid	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 latter	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 former	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	present · passive		the child				to a Giant goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme to giant=Goal

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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