Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 4
This Sringabhuja is able to do in spite of all the demon's daughters being exactly alike, as she has told him beforehand she will wear her pearls on her brow instead of round her neck.
Who acts: Sringabhuja, demon · What happens: be, do, tell, wear, spite, pearl · To what, where: spite, prince, pearls, brow, daughters · 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 (Sringabhuja, demon), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 Sringabhuja | det |
| 2 | Sringabhuja | Sringabhuja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 able | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 able | cop |
| 4 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 do | mark |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 able | xcomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 spite | case |
| 8 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 do | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 daughters | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 demon | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 demon | det |
| 12 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 demon | case |
| 14 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 spite | nmod |
| 15 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 daughters | acl |
| 16 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 17 alike | advmod |
| 17 | alike | alike | ADV | _ | 15 being | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 told | punct |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 told | mark |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 told | nsubj |
| 21 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 told | aux |
| 22 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 able | parataxis |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 told | iobj |
| 24 | beforehand | beforehand | SCONJ | _ | 27 wear | mark |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 wear | nsubj |
| 26 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 wear | aux |
| 27 | wear | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 told | ccomp |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 pearls | nmod:poss |
| 29 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 wear | obj |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 brow | case |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 brow | nmod:poss |
| 32 | brow | brow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 wear | obl |
| 33 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 37 neck | case |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 instead | fixed |
| 35 | round | round | ADP | _ | 37 neck | case |
| 36 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 neck | nmod:poss |
| 37 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 wear | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 able | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | this Sringabhuja | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | this Sringabhuja not said here | spite of all demon's daughters | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | present · perfect | Sringabhuja | prince | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | wear | future | Sringabhuja | demon's pearls | demon's brow | instead demon's neck | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent pearl=Theme | ||
| 5 | spite | all demon's daughters | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | pearl | demon | nom pearl «possession intransitive»: 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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