Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 65
In one of the Indian stories, for instance,[158] a king is induced to order his escort to bathe in a lake which is the abode of a Rakshasa or demon.
Who acts: escort, lake · What happens: induce, order, bathe, be · To what, where: king, escort, abode
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 (escort, lake), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 one | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 induced | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 stories | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 stories | det |
| 5 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stories | amod |
| 6 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 one | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 instance | punct |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 instance | case |
| 9 | instance | instance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stories | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 158 | punct |
| 11 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 12 158 | punct |
| 12 | 158 | 158 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 instance | appos |
| 13 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 12 158 | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 king | det |
| 15 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 induced | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 induced | aux:pass |
| 17 | induced | induce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 order | mark |
| 19 | order | order | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 induced | xcomp |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 escort | nmod:poss |
| 21 | escort | escort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 order | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 bathe | mark |
| 23 | bathe | bathe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 order | xcomp |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 lake | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 lake | det |
| 26 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bathe | obl |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 abode | nsubj |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 abode | cop |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 abode | det |
| 30 | abode | abode | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 lake | appos |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 Rakshasa | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 Rakshasa | det |
| 33 | Rakshasa | Rakshasa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 abode | nmod |
| 34 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 35 demon | cc |
| 35 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 abode | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 induced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | induce | present · passive | a king | in one of the Indian stories | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | ||||
| 2 | order | to-infinitive | King's escort | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent escort=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | bathe not said to happen | to-infinitive | King's escort not said here | in a lake | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in lake=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | a lake | the abode or demon | of a Rakshasa | tree rules |
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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