Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 57
The king is at first bent upon punishing him, but pardons him after hearing his sad tale. "
Who acts: pardons, king · What happens: bend, punish, hear, tell · To what, where: king, sad tale · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pardons, king), 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 | 6 bent | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 bent | aux:pass |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 first | case |
| 5 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 bent | obl |
| 6 | bent | bend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | upon | upon | SCONJ | _ | 8 punishing | mark |
| 8 | punishing | punish | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 bent | advcl |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 punishing | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 hearing | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 hearing | cc |
| 12 | pardons | pardon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 hearing | nsubj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 pardons | obj |
| 14 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 15 hearing | mark |
| 15 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 bent | parataxis |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 tale | nmod:poss |
| 17 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 tale | amod |
| 18 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hearing | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 hearing | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 bent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bend | present · passive | the king | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme at first=Location | |||||
| 2 | punish | gerund | king | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||||
| 3 | hear | gerund | pardons | king's sad tale | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tale=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | tell | king | nom tale «communication intransitive»: 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/37/57/