Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, sentence 133
No. 39, a father marries his three daughters to the Sun, the Moon, and the Raven.
Who acts: father · What happens: marry · To what, where: No.
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | No. | no. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 6 marries | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | 39 | 39 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 No. | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No. | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 father | det |
| 5 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 marries | nsubj |
| 6 | marries | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 8 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 daughters | nummod |
| 9 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 marries | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Sun | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Sun | det |
| 12 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 marries | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Moon | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Moon | det |
| 15 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Sun | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Raven | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Raven | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Raven | det |
| 19 | Raven | Raven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 marries | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 marries | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | present | a father | No. | to the Sun and the Moon; the Raven obl | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient to sun=Co-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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