Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 74
In one of the numerous variants of the story in which a prince is exposed to various dangers by his sister--who is induced to plot against his life by her demon lover, the Snake--the hero is sent in search of "a healing and a vivifying water," preserved between two lofty mountains which cleave closely together, except during "two or three minutes" of each day.
Who acts: sister, two lofty mountains, story · What happens: expose, induce, plot, send, vivify, preserve · To what, where: prince, various dangers, story, sister, hero, search
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 (sister, two lofty mountains, story), 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 | _ | 2 one | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 42 sent | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 variants | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 variants | det |
| 5 | numerous | numerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 variants | amod |
| 6 | variants | variant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 sent | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 story | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 story | det |
| 9 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 variants | nmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 exposed | obl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 prince | det |
| 13 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 exposed | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 exposed | aux:pass |
| 15 | exposed | expose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 story | acl:relcl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 dangers | case |
| 17 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 dangers | amod |
| 18 | dangers | danger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 exposed | obl |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 sister | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 sister | nmod:poss |
| 21 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 exposed | obl |
| 22 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 25 induced | punct |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 induced | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 induced | aux:pass |
| 25 | induced | induce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 sister | acl:relcl |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 plot | mark |
| 27 | plot | plot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 induced | xcomp |
| 28 | against | against | ADP | _ | 30 life | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 life | nmod:poss |
| 30 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 plot | obl |
| 31 | by | by | ADP | _ | 34 lover | case |
| 32 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 lover | nmod:poss |
| 33 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 lover | compound |
| 34 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 plot | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 variants | punct |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Snake | det |
| 37 | Snake | Snake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 variants | nsubj |
| 38 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 6 variants | punct |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 hero | det |
| 40 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 41 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 sent | aux:pass |
| 42 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 search | case |
| 44 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 sent | obl |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 healing | case |
| 46 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 48 healing | punct |
| 47 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 healing | det |
| 48 | healing | healing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 search | nmod |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 water | cc |
| 50 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 52 water | det |
| 51 | vivifying | vivify | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 52 water | amod |
| 52 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 healing | conj |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 preserved | punct |
| 54 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 55 preserved | punct |
| 55 | preserved | preserve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 sent | conj |
| 56 | between | between | ADP | _ | 59 mountains | case |
| 57 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 59 mountains | nummod |
| 58 | lofty | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 59 mountains | amod |
| 59 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 55 preserved | obl |
| 60 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 61 cleave | nsubj |
| 61 | cleave | cleave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 59 mountains | acl:relcl |
| 62 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 63 together | advmod |
| 63 | together | together | ADV | _ | 61 cleave | advmod |
| 64 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 71 minutes | punct |
| 65 | except | except | ADP | _ | 71 minutes | case |
| 66 | during | during | ADP | _ | 71 minutes | case |
| 67 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 71 minutes | punct |
| 68 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 71 minutes | nummod |
| 69 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 70 three | cc |
| 70 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 68 two | conj |
| 71 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 55 preserved | obl |
| 72 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 71 minutes | punct |
| 73 | of | of | ADP | _ | 75 day | case |
| 74 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 75 day | det |
| 75 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 71 minutes | nmod |
| 76 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 42 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expose | present · passive | Prince's sister | a prince | various dangers | the story | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Theme to danger=Recipient | ||
| 2 | induce | present · passive | Prince's sister | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | |||||
| 3 | plot | to-infinitive | against Prince's life; by Ptitsa's demon lover | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | send | present · passive | the hero | search of a healing and a vivifying water | in one; of the numerous variants of the story | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in one=Destination | |||
| 5 | vivify in a quote | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | preserve | participle | minute | between two lofty mountains | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | cleave | present | two lofty mountains | together property | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 8 | vary | the story | nom variant «event intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 9 | search | a healing and a vivifying water | nom search «act transitive»: of=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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