Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 26
There's a collection there of the portraits of all the princesses in the world; look at them and choose for yourself; whichever pleases you, to her send a proposal of marriage."
Who acts: collection, you, whichever, marriage · What happens: be, look, choose, please, send, portray · To what, where: you, proposal, princesses
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 (collection, you, whichever, marriage), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 's | expl |
| 2 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 look | advcl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 collection | det |
| 4 | collection | collection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 's | nsubj |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 's | advmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 portraits | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 portraits | det |
| 8 | portraits | portrait | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 there | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 princesses | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 princesses | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 princesses | det |
| 12 | princesses | princess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 portraits | nmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 world | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 world | det |
| 15 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 princesses | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 look | punct |
| 17 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 look | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 choose | cc |
| 21 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 look | conj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 yourself | case |
| 23 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 choose | obl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 pleases | punct |
| 25 | whichever | whichever | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 pleases | nsubj |
| 26 | pleases | please | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 look | parataxis |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 pleases | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 send | punct |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 send | case |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 send | nmod:poss |
| 31 | send | send | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 17 look | parataxis |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 proposal | det |
| 33 | proposal | proposal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 send | obj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 marriage | case |
| 35 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 proposal | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 31 send | punct |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 send | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a collection | there; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | imperative | you not said here | at princesses = princess | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | choose | infinitive | you not said here | for yourself | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for yourself=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | please | present | whichever | you | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | send | infinitive | a proposal of marriage | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent proposal=Theme | |||||
| 6 | portray | all princesses in the world | nom portrait «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | propose | marriage | nom proposal «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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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