Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 21
Again his daughter renders her husband invisible, and assumes the form of a messenger carrying a letter.
Who acts: daughter, messenger · What happens: render, assume, carry, form · To what, where: husband, form, letter, messenger
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 (daughter, messenger), 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 | Again | again | ADV | _ | 4 renders | advmod |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 3 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 renders | nsubj |
| 4 | renders | render | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 husband | nmod:poss |
| 6 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 renders | obj |
| 7 | invisible | invisible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 husband | amod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 assumes | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 assumes | cc |
| 10 | assumes | assume | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 renders | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 form | det |
| 12 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 assumes | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 messenger | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 messenger | det |
| 15 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 form | nmod |
| 16 | carrying | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 messenger | acl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 letter | det |
| 18 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 carrying | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 renders | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | render | present | prince's daughter | daughter's husband | again | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Theme | |||
| 2 | assume | present | prince's daughter not said here | the form of a messenger | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme | ||||
| 3 | carry | gerund | a messenger not said here | a letter | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Theme | ||||
| 4 | form | a messenger | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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