Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 34

The king is unable to free himself from his grasp, and is obliged to promise as his ransom "that which he knows not of at home," which turns out to be a couple of children--a boy and a girl--who have been born during his absence.

Who acts: king · What happens: be, oblige, promise, not know, turn out, bear · To what, where: ransom, couple · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (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	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 unable	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 unable	cop
4	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 free	mark
6	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 unable	xcomp
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 free	obl
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 grasp	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 grasp	nmod:poss
10	grasp	grasp	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 free	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 obliged	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 obliged	cc
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 obliged	aux:pass
14	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 unable	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 promise	mark
16	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 obliged	xcomp
17	as	as	ADP	_	19 ransom	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 ransom	nmod:poss
19	ransom	ransom	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 promise	obl
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 ransom	punct
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 knows	obj
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 knows	obj
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 knows	nsubj
24	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 ransom	acl:relcl
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 knows	advmod
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 home	case
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 home	case
28	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 knows	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 turns	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 turns	punct
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 turns	nsubj
32	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 unable	parataxis
33	out	out	ADP	_	32 turns	compound:prt
34	to	to	PART	_	37 couple	mark
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 couple	cop
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 couple	det
37	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 turns	ccomp
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 children	case
39	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 couple	nmod
40	--	--	PUNCT	_	42 boy	punct
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 boy	det
42	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 couple	conj
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 girl	cc
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 girl	det
45	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 couple	conj
46	--	--	PUNCT	_	50 born	punct
47	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	50 born	nsubj:pass
48	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 born	aux
49	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	50 born	aux:pass
50	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 couple	conj
51	during	during	ADP	_	53 absence	case
52	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 absence	nmod:poss
53	absence	absence	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 born	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 unable	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the king			free, unable property	tree rules
2	oblige	present · passive	the king not said here				vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: clause=Result
3	promise speech: promise	to-infinitive	the king not said here			as King's ransom	vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	not know in a quote	present	King	King's ransom		of home	tree rules
5	turn out	present					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is a	to-infinitive		a couple and a boy and a girl		of children	tree rules
7	bear	present · perfect · passive		a couple and a boy and a girl	during King's absence		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
8	grasp		King				nom grasp «cognition transitive»: poss=agent
9	ransom		King				nom ransom «possession transitive»: poss=agent
10	absent		King				nom absence «state transitive»: poss=agent

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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