Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 132

But the king would not let him marry her unless he went where none had been, and brought back thence what none had seen.

Who acts: king, general, none · What happens: not let, marry, go, be, bring back, see · To what, where: general, Morfei, none

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, general, none), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 let	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 let	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 let	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 let	advmod
6	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 let	obj
8	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 let	xcomp
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 marry	obj
10	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	12 went	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 went	nsubj
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 marry	advcl
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 been	advmod
14	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	16 been	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 been	aux
16	been	be	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 went	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 brought	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 brought	cc
19	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 went	conj
20	back	back	ADV	_	19 brought	advmod
21	thence	thence	ADV	_	22 what	advmod
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	25 seen	obj
23	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	25 seen	nsubj:pass
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 seen	aux
25	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 brought	ccomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not let	would	the king	general	tree rules
2	marry	infinitive	general not said here	Morfei	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
3	go a condition, not said to happen	past	king		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	be	past · perfect	none		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	bring back	past	king not said here		tree rules
6	see	past · perfect · passive		none	tree rules

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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