Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 142

Then the general returned to his own city, and his magic properties enabled him to convince the king that he was an eligible suitor for the hand of the Princess.

Who acts: general, magic properties · What happens: return, enable, convince, be · To what, where: general, king, eligible suitor

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 (general, magic properties), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 returned	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 general	det
3	general	general	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 returned	nsubj
4	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 city	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 city	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 city	amod
8	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 returned	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 enabled	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 enabled	cc
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 properties	nmod:poss
12	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 properties	amod
13	properties	property	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 enabled	nsubj
14	enabled	enable	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 returned	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 enabled	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 convince	mark
17	convince	convince	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 enabled	xcomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 king	det
19	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 convince	obj
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 suitor	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 suitor	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 suitor	cop
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 suitor	det
24	eligible	eligible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 suitor	amod
25	suitor	suitor	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 convince	xcomp
26	for	for	ADP	_	28 hand	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 hand	det
28	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 suitor	nmod
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 Princess	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Princess	det
31	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 hand	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 returned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	return	past	the general		then	to general's own city result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to city=Result
2	enable	past	general's magic properties	general			tree rules
3	convince	to-infinitive	general not said here	the king			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus king=Experiencer
4	is a	past	general	a eligible suitor		for the hand of the Princess	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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