Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 1
To the hero's adventures while with the Water King, and while escaping from him, an important parallel is offered by the end of the already mentioned (at p. 92) Indian story of Sringabhuja.
Who acts: end, hero · What happens: escape, offer, mention, adventure · To what, where: important parallel, p.
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (end, hero), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 5 adventures | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hero | det |
| 3 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 adventures | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 hero | case |
| 5 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 10 King | mark |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 King | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 King | det |
| 9 | Water | Water | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 King | compound |
| 10 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 adventures | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 offered | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 offered | cc |
| 13 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 14 escaping | mark |
| 14 | escaping | escape | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 offered | advcl |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 escaping | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 escaping | punct |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 parallel | det |
| 19 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 parallel | amod |
| 20 | parallel | parallel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 offered | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 offered | aux:pass |
| 22 | offered | offer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 adventures | acl |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 end | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 end | det |
| 25 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 offered | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 story | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 story | det |
| 28 | already | already | ADV | _ | 29 mentioned | advmod |
| 29 | mentioned | mention | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 story | amod |
| 30 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 32 p. | punct |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 p. | case |
| 32 | p. | P. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 mentioned | obj |
| 33 | 92 | 92 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 32 p. | flat |
| 34 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 32 p. | punct |
| 35 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 story | amod |
| 36 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 end | nmod |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 Sringabhuja | case |
| 38 | Sringabhuja | Sringabhuja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 story | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 adventures | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | escape | gerund | the end of the mentioned Indian story of Sringabhuja not said here | from King | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from he=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | offer | present · passive | the end of the mentioned Indian story of Sringabhuja | a important parallel | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | mention speech: other | participle | p. | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent p.=Topic | |||||
| 4 | adventure | the hero | with the Water King | nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=agent with=obl |
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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