Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, sentence 90
The younger is the demon's sister, the elder is a king's daughter whom the demon has carried off from her home, after eating her father and all his followers.
Who acts: elder · What happens: be, carry off, eat · To what, where: sister, daughter, demon, home, father
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 (elder), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 younger | det |
| 2 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 sister | advcl |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 sister | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 demon | det |
| 5 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sister | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 demon | case |
| 7 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 daughter | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 elder | det |
| 10 | elder | elder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 daughter | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 daughter | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 king | det |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 king | case |
| 15 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sister | conj |
| 16 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 carried | obl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 demon | det |
| 18 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 carried | aux |
| 20 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 daughter | parataxis |
| 21 | off | off | ADP | _ | 20 carried | compound:prt |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 home | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 home | nmod:poss |
| 24 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 carried | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 eating | punct |
| 26 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 27 eating | mark |
| 27 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 carried | advcl |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 father | nmod:poss |
| 29 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 eating | obj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 followers | cc |
| 31 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 followers | det:predet |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 followers | nmod:poss |
| 33 | followers | follower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 father | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sister | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the demon's sister and a king's daughter | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | the elder | a king's daughter | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | carry off | present · perfect · passive | the demon | demon's home | a king's daughter obl | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from home=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | eat | gerund | demon's father and king's followers | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=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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