Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 30

"If any one asks her a riddle, and she does not guess it, him shall she marry; but he whose riddle she guesses shall have his head chopped off."

Who acts: one, whichever, Ivan, riddle, head · What happens: ask, not guess, marry, guess, have, chop off · To what, where: riddle, whichever · 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 (one, whichever, Ivan, riddle), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 asks	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 asks	mark
3	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	4 one	det
4	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 asks	nsubj
5	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 asks	obj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 riddle	det
8	riddle	riddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 asks	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 guess	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 guess	cc
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 guess	nsubj
12	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 guess	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 guess	advmod
14	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 asks	parataxis
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 guess	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 marry	punct
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 marry	nsubj
18	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 marry	aux
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 marry	nsubj
20	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 guess	conj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 have	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 have	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 whose	nsubj
24	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	25 riddle	nmod:poss
25	riddle	riddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 have	nsubj
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 guesses	nsubj
27	guesses	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 riddle	acl:relcl
28	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 have	aux
29	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 asks	ccomp
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 head	nmod:poss
31	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 chopped	nsubj
32	chopped	chop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 have	ccomp
33	off	off	ADP	_	32 chopped	compound:prt
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 asks	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 asks	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	ask speech: ask in a quote	present	any one	a riddle	whichever	tree rules
2	not guess in a quote	present · do-support	whichever	riddle		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	marry in a quote	shall	Ivan			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	guess in a quote	present	whichever	riddle not said here		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent riddle=Theme
5	have in a quote	shall	riddle			tree rules
6	chop off in a quote	past	Ivan's head			vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=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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