Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, sentence 134

In Hahn, No. 25, a younger brother gives his sisters in marriage to a Lion, a Tiger, and an Eagle, after his elder brothers have refused to do so.

Who acts: younger brother · What happens: give, refuse, not do · To what, where: sisters, Hahn, Eagle

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 (younger brother), 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 Hahn	case
2	Hahn	Hahn	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 gives	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 No.	punct
4	No.	No.	PROPN	Abbr=Yes Number=Sing	2 Hahn	appos
5	25	25	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 No.	flat
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Hahn	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 brother	det
8	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 brother	amod
9	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gives	nsubj
10	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 sisters	nmod:poss
12	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 gives	iobj
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 marriage	case
14	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gives	obl
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 Lion	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 Lion	det
17	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 marriage	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Tiger	punct
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 Tiger	det
20	Tiger	Tiger	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Lion	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 refused	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 refused	cc
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 Eagle	det
24	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 refused	nsubj:pass
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Eagle	punct
26	after	after	SCONJ	_	31 refused	mark
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 brothers	nmod:poss
28	elder	elder	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 brothers	compound
29	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 refused	nsubj:pass
30	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 refused	aux
31	refused	refuse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 gives	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 do	mark
33	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 refused	xcomp
34	so	so	ADV	_	33 do	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 gives	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	present	a younger brother		No.'s sisters	Hahn	in marriage to a Lion and a Tiger	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Theme
2	refuse	present · perfect · passive		a Eagle				tree rules
3	not do	to-infinitive						vn act-114-1 «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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