Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 47
Sometimes it is a brother, instead of a father, from whom the heroine is forced to flee.
Who acts: puppet, heroine · What happens: be, force, flee · To what, where: brother, heroine
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (puppet, heroine), 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 | Sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 brother | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 brother | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 brother | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 brother | det |
| 5 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 father | punct |
| 7 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 10 father | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 instead | fixed |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 father | det |
| 10 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brother | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 forced | punct |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 whom | case |
| 13 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 forced | obl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 heroine | det |
| 15 | heroine | heroine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 forced | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 forced | aux:pass |
| 17 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 father | acl:relcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 flee | mark |
| 19 | flee | flee | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 forced | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 brother | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | puppet | a brother and a father | sometimes property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | force | present · passive | the heroine | from a father | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | flee | to-infinitive | the heroine not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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