Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 67
Following the advice of her daughters, three fair maidens whom he meets in her palace, Ivan does not attempt to touch the magic sword while she sleeps.
Who acts: Ivan, advice · What happens: follow, meet, not attempt, not touch, sleep · To what, where: three fair maidens, palace, magic sword
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ivan, advice), 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 | Following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 advice | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 advice | det |
| 3 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 attempt | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 daughters | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 6 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 advice | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 maidens | punct |
| 8 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 maidens | nummod |
| 9 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 maidens | amod |
| 10 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 daughters | appos |
| 11 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 meets | obj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 meets | nsubj |
| 13 | meets | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 maidens | acl:relcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 palace | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 palace | nmod:poss |
| 16 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 meets | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 advice | punct |
| 18 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 attempt | nsubj |
| 19 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 attempt | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 attempt | advmod |
| 21 | attempt | attempt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 touch | mark |
| 23 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 attempt | xcomp |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 sword | det |
| 25 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 sword | amod |
| 26 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 touch | obj |
| 27 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 29 sleeps | mark |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 sleeps | nsubj |
| 29 | sleeps | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 touch | advcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 attempt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | meet | present | Ivan | three fair maidens | advice's palace | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | not attempt | present · do-support | Ivan | follow the advice of advice's daughters | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | not touch | to-infinitive | Ivan not said here | the magic sword | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sword=Co-Theme | ||||
| 5 | sleep | present | advice | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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