Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 1
In one of the Wallachian tales[260] the hero is assisted in his search after the dragon-stolen heroine by three supernatural females--the holy Mothers Friday, Wednesday, and Sunday.
Who acts: three supernatural females, his · What happens: assist, steal, search · To what, where: hero, search
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three supernatural females, his), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 one | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 assisted | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 tales | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tales | det |
| 5 | Wallachian | Wallachian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 tales | compound |
| 6 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 one | nmod |
| 7 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 8 260 | punct |
| 8 | 260 | 260 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 tales | appos |
| 9 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 8 260 | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hero | det |
| 11 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 assisted | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 assisted | aux:pass |
| 13 | assisted | assist | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 search | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 search | nmod:poss |
| 16 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 assisted | obl |
| 17 | after | after | ADP | _ | 22 heroine | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 heroine | det |
| 19 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 stolen | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 dragon | punct |
| 21 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 heroine | amod |
| 22 | heroine | heroine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 search | nmod |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 females | case |
| 24 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 females | nummod |
| 25 | supernatural | supernatural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 females | amod |
| 26 | females | female | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 assisted | obl |
| 27 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 31 Friday | punct |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Friday | det |
| 29 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 Friday | amod |
| 30 | Mothers | Mothers | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Friday | compound |
| 31 | Friday | Friday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 females | parataxis |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 Wednesday | punct |
| 33 | Wednesday | Wednesday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Friday | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 Sunday | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 Sunday | cc |
| 36 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 assisted | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 assisted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assist | present · passive | three supernatural females | the hero | his search after the stolen heroine | sunday | in one of the Wallachian tales | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary | |
| 2 | steal | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | search | his = he | after the stolen heroine | nom search «act transitive»: poss=agent after=obl |
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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