Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 37
Well, they got ready for the journey and set off to sue for the hand of the Princess Anna the Fair.
Who acts: words · What happens: get, set off, sue
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 (words), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 got | xcomp |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 journey | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 journey | det |
| 8 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ready | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 set | cc |
| 10 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 got | conj |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 set | compound:prt |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 sue | case |
| 13 | sue | sue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 set | conj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 hand | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hand | det |
| 16 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sue | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Anna | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Anna | det |
| 19 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Anna | compound |
| 20 | Anna | Anna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 hand | nmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Fair | det |
| 22 | Fair | Fair | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Anna | flat |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | words = word | ready property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | set off | infinitive | words = word not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | sue | infinitive | words = word not said here | for the hand of the Princess Anna | tree rules |
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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