Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, sentence 43
- quotes a Little-Russian Skazka in which a man, who is seeking "the Isle in which there is no death," meets with various personages like those with whom the Prince at first wished to stay on his journey, and at last takes up his abode with the moon.
Who acts: 272, man, death, Prince · What happens: quote, seek, be, meet, wish, stay · To what, where: Russian Skazka, Isle, journey, abode, last · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (272, man, death, Prince), 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 | 272 | 272 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 quotes | nsubj |
| 2 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 1 272 | punct |
| 3 | quotes | quote | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 Skazka | det |
| 5 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Russian | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Little | punct |
| 7 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Skazka | amod |
| 8 | Skazka | Skazka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 quotes | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 man | case |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 man | nsubj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Skazka | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 seeking | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 seeking | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 seeking | aux |
| 16 | seeking | seek | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 man | acl |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 Isle | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Isle | det |
| 19 | Isle | Isle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 seeking | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 which | case |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 is | obl |
| 22 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 23 is | expl |
| 23 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 Isle | acl:relcl |
| 24 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 25 death | det |
| 25 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 is | nsubj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 meets | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 meets | punct |
| 28 | meets | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 quotes | conj |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 personages | case |
| 30 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 personages | amod |
| 31 | personages | personage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 meets | obl |
| 32 | like | like | ADP | _ | 33 those | case |
| 33 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 31 personages | nmod |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 whom | case |
| 35 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 those | nmod |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Prince | det |
| 37 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 whom | nsubj |
| 38 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 40 wished | mark |
| 39 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 40 wished | advmod |
| 40 | wished | wish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 meets | advcl |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 stay | mark |
| 42 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 wished | xcomp |
| 43 | on | on | ADP | _ | 45 journey | case |
| 44 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 journey | nmod:poss |
| 45 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 stay | obl |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 takes | punct |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 takes | cc |
| 48 | at | at | ADP | _ | 49 last | case |
| 49 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 takes | obl |
| 50 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 quotes | conj |
| 51 | up | up | ADP | _ | 50 takes | compound:prt |
| 52 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 53 abode | nmod:poss |
| 53 | abode | abode | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 takes | obj |
| 54 | with | with | ADP | _ | 56 moon | case |
| 55 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 56 moon | det |
| 56 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 takes | obl |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 quotes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quote speech: other | present | 272 | a Russian Skazka | in a man | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skazka=Topic | |||
| 2 | seek | present · progressive | a man | the Isle | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | be in a quote | present | no death | the Isle; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location | ||||
| 4 | meet | present | 272 not said here | with various personages like those | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with personage=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | wish | participle | 272 not said here | first property | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 6 | stay not said to happen | to-infinitive | 272 not said here | Prince's journey | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on journey=Location | ||||
| 7 | take up | present | 272 not said here | Prince's abode | last | with the moon | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent abode=Theme at last=Asset | ||
| 8 | journey | Prince | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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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