Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 60
The Prince hides himself among the bushes near the castle, and sees a fair maiden come out of it surrounded by an armed band, "and all the band consists of maidens, each one more beautiful than the other.
Who acts: Prince, band · What happens: hide, see, come out, surround, consist · To what, where: Prince, bushes, fair maiden · 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 (Prince, band), 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 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 hides | nsubj |
| 3 | hides | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 hides | obj |
| 5 | among | among | ADP | _ | 7 bushes | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bushes | det |
| 7 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hides | obl |
| 8 | near | near | ADP | _ | 10 castle | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 castle | det |
| 10 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bushes | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sees | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 sees | cc |
| 13 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 hides | parataxis |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 maiden | det |
| 15 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 maiden | amod |
| 16 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sees | obj |
| 17 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 sees | conj |
| 18 | out | out | ADV | _ | 17 come | advmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 come | obl |
| 21 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 sees | ccomp |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 band | case |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 band | det |
| 24 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 band | amod |
| 25 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sees | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 sees | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 consists | cc |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 band | det:predet |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 band | det |
| 31 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 consists | nsubj |
| 32 | consists | consist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 hides | conj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 maidens | case |
| 34 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 consists | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 one | punct |
| 36 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 37 one | det |
| 37 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 maidens | nmod |
| 38 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 39 beautiful | advmod |
| 39 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 consists | advcl |
| 40 | than | than | ADP | _ | 42 other | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 other | det |
| 42 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 beautiful | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hides | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | present | the Prince | Prince | the bushes near the castle | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient among bush=Location | |||
| 2 | see | present | a fair maiden | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | come out | present | of maiden; out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | surround | participle | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | consist in a quote | present | all band | of maidens each one | 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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