Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 57
Thus in one of the Skazkas[307] an aged king dreams that "beyond thrice nine lands, in the thirtieth country, there is a fair maiden from whose hands and feet water is flowing, of which water he who drinks will become thirty years younger."
Who acts: one, water, king · What happens: dream, be, flow, drink, become · To what, where: fair maiden, hands · 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 (one, water, king), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 3 one | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 one | case |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 dreams | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Skazkas | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Skazkas | det |
| 6 | Skazkas | Skazkas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 dreams | nsubj |
| 7 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 8 307 | punct |
| 8 | 307 | 307 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 Skazkas | list |
| 9 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 8 307 | punct |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 11 | aged | aged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 king | amod |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dreams | nsubj |
| 13 | dreams | dream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 flowing | mark |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 maiden | punct |
| 16 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 19 lands | case |
| 17 | thrice | thrice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 lands | amod |
| 18 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 lands | nummod |
| 19 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 is | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 country | punct |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 country | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 country | det |
| 23 | thirtieth | thirtieth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 country | amod |
| 24 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lands | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 lands | punct |
| 26 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 27 is | expl |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 maiden | cop |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 maiden | det |
| 29 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 maiden | amod |
| 30 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 water | nmod:poss |
| 31 | from | from | ADP | _ | 33 hands | case |
| 32 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 33 hands | nmod:poss |
| 33 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 maiden | nmod |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 feet | cc |
| 35 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 hands | conj |
| 36 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 flowing | nsubj |
| 37 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 flowing | aux |
| 38 | flowing | flow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 47 become | advcl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 water | punct |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 water | case |
| 41 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 42 water | det |
| 42 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 flowing | obl |
| 43 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 drinks | nsubj |
| 44 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 45 drinks | nsubj |
| 45 | drinks | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 water | acl:relcl |
| 46 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 47 become | aux |
| 47 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 dreams | ccomp |
| 48 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 49 years | nummod |
| 49 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 younger | obl:unmarked |
| 50 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 47 become | xcomp |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 dreams | punct |
| 52 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 dreams | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dream | present | one | vn cognize-85 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | a fair maiden | a fair maiden's hands and feet | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | flow in a quote | present · progressive | a fair maiden's water | of which water | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | drink in a quote | present | king | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | become in a quote | future | young property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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