Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 45

[150] The Prince who is obliged, in consequence of his father's promise, to surrender himself to the Water Giant, falls in love with a maiden whom he finds in that potentate's palace, and who is an enchantress whom the Chudo has stolen.

Who acts: prince, palace, father · What happens: oblige, surrender, fall, find, be, steal · To what, where: 150, consequence, prince, Water Giant, love, 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, palace, father), 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	[	[	PUNCT	_	2 150	punct
2	150	150	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 obliged	obl
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 150	punct
4	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Prince	det
5	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 150	nmod:unmarked
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 obliged	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 obliged	aux:pass
8	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 consequence	punct
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 consequence	case
11	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 obliged	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	16 promise	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 father	nmod:poss
14	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 promise	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 father	case
16	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 consequence	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 surrender	punct
18	to	to	PART	_	19 surrender	mark
19	surrender	surrender	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 obliged	conj
20	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 surrender	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	24 Giant	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Giant	det
23	Water	Water	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Giant	compound
24	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 surrender	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 falls	punct
26	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 surrender	parataxis
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 love	case
28	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 falls	obl
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 maiden	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 maiden	det
31	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 falls	conj
32	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 finds	obj
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 finds	nsubj
34	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 maiden	parataxis
35	in	in	ADP	_	39 palace	case
36	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 potentate	det
37	potentate	potentate	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 palace	nmod:poss
38	's	's	PART	_	37 potentate	case
39	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 finds	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 enchantress	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 enchantress	cc
42	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 enchantress	nsubj
43	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 enchantress	cop
44	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 enchantress	det
45	enchantress	enchantress	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 palace	appos
46	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	50 stolen	obl
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 Chudo	det
48	Chudo	Chudo	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 stolen	nsubj:pass
49	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 stolen	aux
50	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	45 enchantress	parataxis
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 obliged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	oblige	present · passive		150 the Prince		consequence of prince's father's promise		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	surrender	to-infinitive		prince	the Water Giant			vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Theme to giant=Recipient
3	fall	present				love		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location
4	find	present	prince			that potentate's palace		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Topic
5	is a	present	that potentate's palace	a enchantress				tree rules
6	steal	present · perfect · passive		the Chudo			a enchantress obl	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
7	promise		prince's father					nom promise «communication 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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