Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 137
And next day "she presented that cook to the general, ordering him to serve the general honorably, as he had served her.
Who acts: crone, general · What happens: present, order, serve · To what, where: cook, general, crone
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 (crone, general), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 presented | cc |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 presented | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 presented | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 presented | nsubj |
| 6 | presented | present | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 cook | det |
| 8 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 presented | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 general | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 general | det |
| 11 | general | general | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 presented | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ordering | punct |
| 13 | ordering | order | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 presented | advcl |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 ordering | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 serve | mark |
| 16 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 ordering | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 general | det |
| 18 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 serve | obj |
| 19 | honorably | honorably | ADV | _ | 16 serve | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 served | punct |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 served | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 served | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 served | aux |
| 24 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 presented | conj |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 served | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 presented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | present in a quote | past | crone | that cook | the general | day | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent cook=Theme to general=Recipient | ||
| 2 | order in a quote | gerund | crone not said here | general | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | serve in a quote | to-infinitive | crone not said here | the general | honorably property | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent general=Attribute | |||
| 4 | serve in a quote | past · perfect | general | crone | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Attribute |
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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