Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 40

"We've been travelling all this time, uncle, and now we're approaching the country of Princess Anna the Fair; and yet we don't know what riddle to propound."

Who acts: We · What happens: travel, approach, not know, riddle, propound · To what, where: country · 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 (We), 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 travelling	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 travelling	nsubj
3	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 travelling	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 travelling	aux
5	travelling	travel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 time	det:predet
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 time	det
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 travelling	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 uncle	punct
10	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 time	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 approaching	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 approaching	cc
13	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 approaching	advmod
14	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 approaching	nsubj
15	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 approaching	aux
16	approaching	approach	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 travelling	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 country	det
18	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 approaching	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 Anna	case
20	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Anna	compound
21	Anna	Anna	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 country	nmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Fair	det
23	Fair	Fair	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Anna	appos
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 know	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 know	cc
26	yet	yet	ADV	_	30 know	advmod
27	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 know	nsubj
28	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur 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	5 travelling	parataxis
31	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	32 riddle	nsubj
32	riddle	riddle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 know	ccomp
33	to	to	PART	_	34 propound	mark
34	propound	propound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 riddle	xcomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 travelling	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 travelling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	travel in a quote	present · perfect · progressive	We		time	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	approach in a quote	present · progressive	we	the country of Princess Anna	now	vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Theme
3	not know in a quote	present · do-support	we		yet	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	riddle in a quote	present				tree rules
5	propound in a quote	to-infinitive				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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