Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 83
The Water King next set out two score tubs of all kinds of strong drinks, and ordered his son-in-law to see that they were all drained dry.
Who acts: Water King · What happens: set out, order, see, drain · To what, where: two score tubs, law, tubs · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Water King), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 2 | Water | Water | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 King | compound |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 set | nsubj |
| 4 | next | next | ADV | _ | 5 set | advmod |
| 5 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 set | compound:prt |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 tubs | nummod |
| 8 | score | score | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tubs | compound |
| 9 | tubs | tub | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 set | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 kinds | case |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 kinds | det |
| 12 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 tubs | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 drinks | case |
| 14 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 drinks | amod |
| 15 | drinks | drink | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 kinds | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 ordered | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 ordered | cc |
| 18 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 set | parataxis |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 law | nmod:poss |
| 20 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 law | nsubj |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 law | punct |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 law | case |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 in | punct |
| 24 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ordered | obj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 see | mark |
| 26 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 ordered | advcl |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 drained | mark |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 drained | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 drained | aux:pass |
| 30 | all | all | ADV | _ | 31 drained | advmod |
| 31 | drained | drain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 see | ccomp |
| 32 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 drained | xcomp |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | past | the Water King | two score tubs of all kinds of strong drinks | next property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | order | past | King's law | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | drain | past · passive | tubs = tub | all, dry property | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source |
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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