Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 28
And the one that pleased him best was that of the Princess Anna the Fair--such a beauty! the like of her wasn't to be found in the whole world!
Who acts: one · What happens: be, not find · To what, where: whole world
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 (one), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 was | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 one | det |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 was | nsubj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 pleased | nsubj |
| 5 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 one | acl:relcl |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 pleased | nsubj |
| 7 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 pleased | obl |
| 8 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 Anna | mark |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Anna | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Anna | det |
| 12 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Anna | compound |
| 13 | Anna | Anna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 was | obl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Fair | det |
| 15 | Fair | Fair | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Anna | flat |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 beauty | punct |
| 17 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 beauty | det:predet |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 beauty | det |
| 19 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Anna | appos |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 19 beauty | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 found | det |
| 22 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 29 found | mark |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 her | case |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 found | obl |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 found | aux:pass |
| 26 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 found | advmod |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 found | mark |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 found | aux:pass |
| 29 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 beauty | acl |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 world | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 world | det |
| 32 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 world | amod |
| 33 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 found | obl |
| 34 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 13 Anna | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | the one | of the Princess Anna | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not find | past · passive | the one not said here | the whole world | of whichever | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF» |
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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