Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 130
After a time a Prince Ivan heard of Marya, so he came riding up, and offered to marry whichever of the three princesses could fill with berries from the bush a bowl which he brought with him.
Who acts: Prince Ivan, Ivan, whichever · What happens: hear, come, ride up, offer, marry, fill · To what, where: bush, bowl
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 (Prince Ivan, Ivan, whichever), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heard | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 Ivan | det |
| 5 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Ivan | compound |
| 6 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 heard | nsubj |
| 7 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Marya | case |
| 9 | Marya | Marya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 heard | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 came | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 came | nsubj |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 heard | conj |
| 14 | riding | ride | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 came | advcl |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 riding | compound:prt |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 offered | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 offered | cc |
| 18 | offered | offer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 heard | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 marry | mark |
| 20 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 offered | advcl |
| 21 | whichever | whichever | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fill | nsubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 princesses | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 princesses | det |
| 24 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 princesses | nummod |
| 25 | princesses | princess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 whichever | nmod |
| 26 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 fill | aux |
| 27 | fill | fill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 marry | ccomp |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 berries | case |
| 29 | berries | berry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 fill | obl |
| 30 | from | from | ADP | _ | 32 bush | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 bush | det |
| 32 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fill | obl |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 bowl | det |
| 34 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 bush | conj |
| 35 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 brought | obj |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 brought | nsubj |
| 37 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 bowl | acl:relcl |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 him | case |
| 39 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 brought | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | a Prince Ivan | time | of Marya | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of marya=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | come | past | Ivan | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | ride up | gerund | Ivan not said here | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | offer | participle | a Prince Ivan not said here | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | marry | to-infinitive | a Prince Ivan not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | fill | could | whichever of the three princesses | the bush and a bowl | with berries | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with berry=Instrument | |||
| 7 | bring | past | whichever | a bowl | with Ivan | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent which=Theme |
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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