Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 32
"I've been in the great hall," says he, "and I picked out for my bride Anna the Fair; only I don't know whether it's possible to win her."
Who acts: great hall, it · What happens: be, say, pick out, not know, win · To what, where: great hall, Prince, Fair, Anna · 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 (great hall, it), 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 | _ | 8 hall | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 hall | nsubj |
| 3 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 hall | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 hall | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 hall | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hall | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hall | amod |
| 8 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 says | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 hall | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 hall | punct |
| 11 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 says | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 he | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 he | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 picked | cc |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 picked | nsubj |
| 17 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 says | conj |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 picked | compound:prt |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 bride | case |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 bride | nmod:poss |
| 21 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 picked | obl |
| 22 | Anna | Anna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 bride | appos |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Fair | det |
| 24 | Fair | Fair | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 picked | obj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 know | punct |
| 26 | only | only | ADV | _ | 30 know | advmod |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 know | nsubj |
| 28 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 know | aux |
| 29 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 know | advmod |
| 30 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 says | ccomp |
| 31 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 34 possible | mark |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 possible | nsubj |
| 33 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 possible | cop |
| 34 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 know | ccomp |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 win | mark |
| 36 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 possible | csubj |
| 37 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 win | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 know | punct |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present · perfect | the great hall = hall | the great hall | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | the great hall | Prince | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | pick out in a quote | past | the great hall = hall | the Fair | for my bride | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent fair=Theme for bride=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | not know in a quote | present · do-support | the great hall = hall | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | it | possible property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | win in a quote | to-infinitive | Anna | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality |
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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