Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 96
They all set forth to seek brides, and eventually marry the forty-one daughters of a Baba Yaga.
Who acts: eggs · What happens: set, seek, marry · To what, where: brides, one daughters
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 (eggs), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 set | nsubj |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 set | advmod |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 3 set | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 seek | mark |
| 6 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 set | advcl |
| 7 | brides | bride | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 seek | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 marry | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 marry | cc |
| 10 | eventually | eventually | ADV | _ | 11 marry | advmod |
| 11 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 set | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 daughters | det |
| 13 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 one | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 forty | punct |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 daughters | nummod |
| 16 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 marry | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Yaga | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 Yaga | det |
| 19 | Baba | Baba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Yaga | compound |
| 20 | Yaga | Yaga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 daughters | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | present | eggs = egg | forth property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | seek | to-infinitive | eggs = egg not said here | brides | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=Theme | ||||
| 3 | marry | infinitive | eggs = egg not said here | the one daughters of a Baba Yaga | eventually property | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient |
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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