Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 122
[231] There once was a Princess Marya, whose stepmother had two daughters, one of whom was three-eyed.
Who acts: stepmother · What happens: be, have · To what, where: Princess Marya, two daughters
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 (stepmother), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 231 | punct |
| 2 | 231 | 231 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 231 | punct |
| 4 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 231 | expl |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 There | advmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 Marya | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 Marya | det |
| 8 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Marya | compound |
| 9 | Marya | Marya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 once | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 had | punct |
| 11 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 12 stepmother | nmod:poss |
| 12 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 had | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 Marya | acl:relcl |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 daughters | nummod |
| 15 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 had | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 one | punct |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 daughters | appos |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 whom | case |
| 19 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 eyed | obl |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 eyed | cop |
| 21 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 eyed | nummod |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 three | punct |
| 23 | eyed | eyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 one | amod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 231 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a Princess Marya | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have | past | stepmother | two daughters | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | eyed property | tree rules |
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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