Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 15
Among his captives was a Persian princess, to whom he was warmly attached.
What happens: be, attach · To what, where: Persian princess, Stenka
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Among | among | ADP | _ | 3 captives | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 captives | nmod:poss |
| 3 | captives | captive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 princess | obl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 princess | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 princess | det |
| 6 | Persian | persian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 princess | amod |
| 7 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 whom | punct |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 whom | case |
| 10 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 princess | appos |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 attached | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 attached | aux:pass |
| 13 | warmly | warmly | ADV | _ | 14 attached | advmod |
| 14 | attached | attach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 whom | acl:relcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 princess | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a Persian princess | among Stenka's captives | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | attach | past · passive | Stenka | warmly property | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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