Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 21
A certain priest's daughter went strolling in the forest one day, without having obtained leave from her father or her mother--and she disappeared utterly.
Who acts: daughter · What happens: go, stroll, have, obtain, disappear · To what, where: forest, obtained leave
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 (daughter), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 priest | det |
| 2 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 priest | amod |
| 3 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 priest | case |
| 5 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | strolling | stroll | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 went | xcomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 forest | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 forest | det |
| 10 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 strolling | obl |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 day | nummod |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 strolling | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 having | punct |
| 14 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 15 having | mark |
| 15 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 strolling | conj |
| 16 | obtained | obtain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 leave | amod |
| 17 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 having | obj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 father | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 father | nmod:poss |
| 20 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 having | obl |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 mother | cc |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 mother | nmod:poss |
| 23 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 father | conj |
| 24 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 27 disappeared | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 disappeared | cc |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 disappeared | nsubj |
| 27 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 28 | utterly | utterly | ADV | _ | 27 disappeared | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | a certain priest's daughter | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | stroll | gerund | a certain priest's daughter not said here | the forest | day | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forest=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | have | gerund | a certain priest's daughter not said here | obtained leave | from daughter's father or daughter's mother | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Patient | |||
| 4 | obtain | participle | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||||
| 5 | disappear | past | daughter | utterly property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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