Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 2
That prince asks Agnisikha, the Rakshasa whom, in his crane-form, he has wounded, to bestow upon him the hand of his daughter--the maiden who had met him on his arrival at the Rakshasa's palace.
Who acts: prince, maiden · What happens: ask, wound, bestow, meet, form, arrive · To what, where: Agnisikha, crane form, hand, prince, arrival, palace
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 (prince, maiden), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asks | nsubj |
| 3 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Agnisikha | Agnisikha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 asks | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Rakshasa | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Rakshasa | det |
| 7 | Rakshasa | Rakshasa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Agnisikha | conj |
| 8 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 Agnisikha | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 form | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 form | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 form | nmod:poss |
| 12 | crane | crane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 form | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 crane | punct |
| 14 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asks | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wounded | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 wounded | nsubj |
| 17 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 wounded | aux |
| 18 | wounded | wound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 asks | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 bestow | punct |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 bestow | mark |
| 21 | bestow | bestow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 18 wounded | parataxis |
| 22 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 bestow | obl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 hand | det |
| 25 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bestow | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 daughter | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 28 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hand | nmod |
| 29 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 34 met | punct |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 maiden | det |
| 31 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 met | nsubj |
| 32 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 met | nsubj |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 met | aux |
| 34 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 bestow | conj |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 met | obj |
| 36 | on | on | ADP | _ | 38 arrival | case |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 arrival | nmod:poss |
| 38 | arrival | arrival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 met | obl |
| 39 | at | at | ADP | _ | 43 palace | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 Rakshasa | det |
| 41 | Rakshasa | Rakshasa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 palace | nmod:poss |
| 42 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 41 Rakshasa | case |
| 43 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 arrival | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 asks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | that prince | Agnisikha and the Rakshasa | prince's crane form | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent agnisikha=Recipient | |||
| 2 | wound | present · perfect | prince | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | bestow | to-infinitive | the hand of prince's daughter | upon prince | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | meet | past · perfect | the maiden | prince | prince's arrival at the Rakshasa's palace | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | |||
| 5 | form | prince | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | arrive | prince | the Rakshasa's palace | nom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=agent at=place |
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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