Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 88
In one of these, for instance, the golden-haired Queen Anastasia has been torn away by a whirlwind from her husband "Tsar Byel Byelyanin" [the White King].
Who acts: whirlwind · What happens: tear away · To what, where: Queen
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 (whirlwind), 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 | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 these | case |
| 4 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 one | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 instance | punct |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 instance | case |
| 7 | instance | instance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 one | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 haired | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 haired | det |
| 10 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 haired | amod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 golden | punct |
| 12 | haired | haired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 instance | acl:relcl |
| 13 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 torn | nsubj |
| 14 | Anastasia | Anastasia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Queen | flat |
| 15 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 torn | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 torn | aux:pass |
| 17 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 haired | ccomp |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 torn | advmod |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 whirlwind | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 whirlwind | det |
| 21 | whirlwind | whirlwind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 torn | obl |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 husband | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 husband | nmod:poss |
| 24 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 whirlwind | nmod |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 Byel | punct |
| 26 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Byel | compound |
| 27 | Byel | Byel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 husband | appos |
| 28 | Byelyanin | Byelyanin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Byel | flat |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 Byel | punct |
| 30 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 33 King | punct |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 King | det |
| 32 | White | White | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 King | amod |
| 33 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 husband | appos |
| 34 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 33 King | punct |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tear away | present · perfect · passive | a whirlwind from Queen's husband | Queen | away property | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location 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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