Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, sentence 27
Her brother, who had escaped while she was still a babe, visits her and is kindly received.
Who acts: brother, Princess · What happens: escape, be, visit, receive · To what, where: babe, Princess
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 (brother, Princess), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 brother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 visits | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 escaped | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 escaped | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 escaped | aux |
| 6 | escaped | escape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 brother | acl:relcl |
| 7 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 12 babe | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 babe | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 babe | cop |
| 10 | still | still | ADV | _ | 12 babe | advmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 babe | det |
| 12 | babe | babe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 escaped | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 brother | punct |
| 14 | visits | visit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 visits | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 received | cc |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 received | aux:pass |
| 18 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 19 received | advmod |
| 19 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 visits | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 visits | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | escape | past · perfect | Princess's brother | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | Princess | a babe | still | tree rules | |||
| 3 | visit | present | Princess's brother | Princess | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | receive | present · passive | Princess's brother not said here | kindly property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP» |
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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