Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 104
The king's agents took to worrying his subjects for needles, and brought such trouble upon the whole kingdom, that his ministers entreated him to have the beast put to death.
Who acts: agents, ministers · What happens: take, worry, bring, entreat, have, put · To what, where: subjects, such trouble, king, beast
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (agents, ministers), 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 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 agents | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 king | case |
| 4 | agents | agent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 took | nsubj |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 7 worrying | mark |
| 7 | worrying | worry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 took | advcl |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 subjects | nmod:poss |
| 9 | subjects | subject | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 worrying | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 needles | case |
| 11 | needles | needle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 worrying | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 brought | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 brought | cc |
| 14 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 took | conj |
| 15 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 trouble | amod |
| 16 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 brought | obj |
| 17 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 20 kingdom | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 kingdom | det |
| 19 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 kingdom | amod |
| 20 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 brought | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 entreated | punct |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 entreated | mark |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 ministers | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ministers | minister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 entreated | nsubj |
| 25 | entreated | entreat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 brought | conj |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 entreated | obj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 have | mark |
| 28 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 entreated | xcomp |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 beast | det |
| 30 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 have | obj |
| 31 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 beast | acl |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 death | case |
| 33 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 put | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the king's agents | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | worry | gerund | the king's agents not said here | king's subjects | for needles | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | bring | past | the king's agents not said here | such trouble | upon the whole kingdom | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent trouble=Theme | |||
| 4 | entreat | past | king's ministers | king | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | have | to-infinitive | king's ministers not said here | the beast | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=Patient | ||||
| 6 | put | participle | the beast not said here | to death | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: 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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