Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 58
He bestowed on him the name of Luckless,[248] and gave orders that a stamp should be set on his forehead, that no tolls or taxes should be demanded from him, and that wherever he appeared he should be given free board and lodging, but that he should never be allowed to stop more than twenty-four hours in any one place."
Who acts: king · What happens: bestow, give, set, demand, appear, not allow · To what, where: name, orders, stamp, forehead, tolls, king
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 bestowed | nsubj |
| 2 | bestowed | bestow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 bestowed | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 name | det |
| 6 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bestowed | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Luckless | case |
| 8 | Luckless | Luckless | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 name | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 248 | punct |
| 10 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 11 248 | punct |
| 11 | 248 | 248 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 bestowed | obl |
| 12 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 11 248 | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 gave | cc |
| 14 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 bestowed | conj |
| 15 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 gave | obj |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 set | obj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 stamp | det |
| 18 | stamp | stamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 set | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 set | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 set | aux:pass |
| 21 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 orders | acl:relcl |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 forehead | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 forehead | nmod:poss |
| 24 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 set | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 demanded | punct |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 demanded | mark |
| 27 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 28 tolls | det |
| 28 | tolls | toll | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 demanded | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 30 taxes | cc |
| 30 | taxes | tax | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 tolls | conj |
| 31 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 demanded | aux |
| 32 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 demanded | aux:pass |
| 33 | demanded | demand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 gave | conj |
| 34 | from | from | ADP | _ | 35 him | case |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 demanded | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 appeared | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 appeared | cc |
| 38 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 41 appeared | mark |
| 39 | wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 41 appeared | advmod |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 appeared | nsubj |
| 41 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 bestowed | parataxis |
| 42 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 given | nsubj:pass |
| 43 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 given | aux |
| 44 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 45 given | aux:pass |
| 45 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 appeared | advcl |
| 46 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 board | amod |
| 47 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 given | obj |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 lodging | cc |
| 49 | lodging | lodging | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 board | conj |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 57 allowed | punct |
| 51 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 57 allowed | cc |
| 52 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 57 allowed | mark |
| 53 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 57 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 54 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 57 allowed | aux |
| 55 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 57 allowed | advmod |
| 56 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 57 allowed | aux:pass |
| 57 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 appeared | conj |
| 58 | to | to | PART | _ | 59 stop | mark |
| 59 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 57 allowed | xcomp |
| 60 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 64 four | advmod |
| 61 | than | than | ADP | _ | 60 more | fixed |
| 62 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 64 four | compound |
| 63 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 62 twenty | punct |
| 64 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 65 hours | nummod |
| 65 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 59 stop | obl:unmarked |
| 66 | in | in | ADP | _ | 69 place | case |
| 67 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 69 place | det |
| 68 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 69 place | compound |
| 69 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 stop | obl |
| 70 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bestowed | punct |
| 71 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 bestowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bestow | past | king | the name of Luckless | on man; 248 obl | tree rules | |||
| 2 | give | past | king not said here | orders | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme | ||||
| 3 | set | should · passive | a stamp | king's forehead | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme that=Destination | ||||
| 4 | demand speech: request | should · passive | no tolls or taxes | from king | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Precondition from he=Source | ||||
| 5 | appear | past | king | wherever property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | give | should · passive | king | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient board=Theme | |||||
| 7 | not allow | should · passive | king | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 8 | stop not said to happen | to-infinitive | king not said here | any one place | hour | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location | |||
| 9 | name | Luckless | nom name «communication transitive»: of=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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