Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 109
The Queen proceeds to tell her son that, when Vikhor comes home, he must hide beneath her purple cloak, and watch for an opportunity of seizing her gaoler's magic mace.
Who acts: Queen, son, Vikhor, opportunity · What happens: proceed, tell, come, hide, watch, seize · To what, where: son, purple cloak, magic mace · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, son, Vikhor, opportunity), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Queen | det |
| 2 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 proceeds | nsubj |
| 3 | proceeds | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 tell | mark |
| 5 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 proceeds | xcomp |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 son | nmod:poss |
| 7 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tell | iobj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 comes | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 comes | punct |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 comes | advmod |
| 11 | Vikhor | Vikhor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 comes | nsubj |
| 12 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 son | acl:relcl |
| 13 | home | home | ADV | _ | 12 comes | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hide | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 hide | nsubj |
| 16 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 hide | aux |
| 17 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 tell | conj |
| 18 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 21 cloak | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 cloak | nmod:poss |
| 20 | purple | purple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 cloak | amod |
| 21 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hide | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 watch | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 watch | cc |
| 24 | watch | watch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 proceeds | parataxis |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 opportunity | case |
| 26 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 opportunity | det |
| 27 | opportunity | opportunity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 watch | obl |
| 28 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 29 seizing | mark |
| 29 | seizing | seize | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 opportunity | acl |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 gaoler | nmod:poss |
| 31 | gaoler | gaoler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 mace | nmod:poss |
| 32 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 31 gaoler | case |
| 33 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 mace | amod |
| 34 | mace | mace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 seizing | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 proceeds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | proceed | present | the Queen | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | the Queen not said here | Queen's son | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent son=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | come | present | Queen's son | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hide | must | Vikhor | Queen's purple cloak | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beneath cloak=Location | ||||
| 5 | watch | infinitive | for a opportunity | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for opportunity=Theme | |||||
| 6 | seize | gerund | a opportunity not said here | Queen's gaoler's magic mace | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mace=Theme |
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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