Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 113
Princess Anna the Fair lived for some time with Prince Ivan as a wife ought to live with a god-given[320] husband, flattered him in every way in words, but in reality never thought of anything except by what means she might get rid of Katoma.
Who acts: Princess Anna, wife · What happens: live, give, flatter, not think, mean, get · To what, where: 320, Ivan, way, reality · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess Anna, wife), 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 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Anna | compound |
| 2 | Anna | Anna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 lived | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Fair | det |
| 4 | Fair | Fair | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Anna | appos |
| 5 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 time | case |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 time | det |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lived | obl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 Ivan | case |
| 10 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Ivan | compound |
| 11 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 time | nmod |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 live | mark |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 wife | det |
| 14 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 live | nsubj |
| 15 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 live | aux |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 live | mark |
| 17 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 lived | advcl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 husband | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 husband | det |
| 20 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 given | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 god | punct |
| 22 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 husband | amod |
| 23 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 24 320 | punct |
| 24 | 320 | 320 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 given | obj |
| 25 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 24 320 | punct |
| 26 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 live | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 flattered | punct |
| 28 | flattered | flatter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lived | conj |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 flattered | obj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 way | case |
| 31 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 way | det |
| 32 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 flattered | obl |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 words | case |
| 34 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 way | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 thought | punct |
| 36 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 40 thought | cc |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 reality | case |
| 38 | reality | reality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 thought | obl |
| 39 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 40 thought | advmod |
| 40 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lived | conj |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 anything | case |
| 42 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 40 thought | obl |
| 43 | except | except | ADP | _ | 46 means | nsubj |
| 44 | by | by | ADP | _ | 43 except | fixed |
| 45 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 46 means | nsubj |
| 46 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 anything | acl:relcl |
| 47 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 get | nsubj |
| 48 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 49 get | aux |
| 49 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 46 means | ccomp |
| 50 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 get | xcomp |
| 51 | of | of | ADP | _ | 52 Katoma | case |
| 52 | Katoma | Katoma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 rid | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | Princess Anna | time | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | live | ought | a wife | with a given husband | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with husband=Location | ||||
| 3 | give | participle | 320 | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 320=Theme | |||||
| 4 | flatter | past | Princess Anna not said here | Ivan | every way in words | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | |||
| 5 | not think speech: other | past | Princess Anna not said here | reality | of anything | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 6 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 7 | get | might | wife | rid property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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