Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 54
Fable 9), who finds one night a young and beautiful woman, richly decked with jewels, weeping outside the city in which dwells his royal master Sudraka, and asks her who she is, and why she weeps.
Who acts: city, woman · What happens: find, deck, weep, dwell, ask, be · To what, where: young woman, royal master · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (city, woman), 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 | Fable | fable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 finds | discourse |
| 2 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Fable | flat |
| 3 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 2 9 | punct |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 finds | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 finds | nsubj |
| 6 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 night | nummod |
| 8 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 finds | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 woman | det |
| 10 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 woman | amod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 beautiful | cc |
| 12 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 young | conj |
| 13 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 finds | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 decked | punct |
| 15 | richly | richly | ADV | _ | 16 decked | advmod |
| 16 | decked | deck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 finds | conj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 jewels | case |
| 18 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 decked | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 weeping | punct |
| 20 | weeping | weep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 finds | conj |
| 21 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 23 city | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 city | det |
| 23 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 weeping | obl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 which | case |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 dwells | nsubj |
| 26 | dwells | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 city | acl:relcl |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 master | nmod:poss |
| 28 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 master | amod |
| 29 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 dwells | obj |
| 30 | Sudraka | Sudraka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 master | appos |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 asks | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 asks | cc |
| 33 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 finds | conj |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 is | nmod:poss |
| 35 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 is | obj |
| 36 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 is | nsubj |
| 37 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 asks | ccomp |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 weeps | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 weeps | cc |
| 40 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 42 weeps | advmod |
| 41 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 weeps | nsubj |
| 42 | weeps | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 finds | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 finds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | a young woman | night | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Topic | ||||
| 2 | deck | participle | with jewels; richly property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with jewel=Theme | |||||
| 3 | weep | gerund | outside the city | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | dwell | present | the city | occasion's royal master | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme master=Location | ||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | present | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 6 | be | present | woman | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot who=Theme | |||||
| 7 | weep | present | woman | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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