Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 16
In a Kirghiz story, quoted by Bronevsky,[300] a golden-haired hero finds, after long search, the maiden to whom he had in very early life been betrothed.
Who acts: golden haired hero, hero · What happens: quote, find, have, betroth · To what, where: Kirghiz story, long search, early life
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 (golden haired hero, hero), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 story | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 story | det |
| 3 | Kirghiz | Kirghiz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 story | compound |
| 4 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 finds | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 quoted | punct |
| 6 | quoted | quote | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 story | acl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 Bronevsky | case |
| 8 | Bronevsky | Bronevsky | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 quoted | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 300 | punct |
| 10 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 11 300 | punct |
| 11 | 300 | 300 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 Bronevsky | appos |
| 12 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 11 300 | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 hero | det |
| 14 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hero | amod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 golden | punct |
| 16 | haired | haired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hero | amod |
| 17 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 finds | nsubj |
| 18 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 search | punct |
| 20 | after | after | ADP | _ | 22 search | case |
| 21 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 search | amod |
| 22 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 finds | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 maiden | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 maiden | det |
| 25 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 search | amod |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 whom | case |
| 27 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 maiden | obl |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 had | nsubj |
| 29 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 whom | acl:relcl |
| 30 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 35 betrothed | mark |
| 31 | very | very | ADV | _ | 32 early | advmod |
| 32 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 life | amod |
| 33 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 betrothed | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 35 betrothed | aux:pass |
| 35 | betrothed | betroth | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 had | xcomp |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 finds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quote speech: other | participle | a Kirghiz story not said here | by Bronevsky | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | find | present | a golden haired hero | long search | a Kirghiz story | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent search=Topic | |||
| 3 | have | past | hero | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | betroth | participle · passive | early life | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=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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