Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 46
When you come into the presence of the Princess, propound a riddle to her in these words: 'As we were coming along, we saw Good lying on the road, and we took up the Good with Good, and placed it in our own Good!'
Who acts: you, we · What happens: come, propound, come along, see, lie, take up · To what, where: presence, riddle, Anna, words, road, Good
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 (you, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 come | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 come | nsubj |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 propound | advcl |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 presence | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 presence | det |
| 6 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 come | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Princess | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Princess | det |
| 9 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 presence | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 propound | punct |
| 11 | propound | propound | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 riddle | det |
| 13 | riddle | riddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 propound | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 her | case |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 propound | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 words | case |
| 17 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 18 words | det |
| 18 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 propound | obl |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 coming | punct |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 coming | punct |
| 21 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 coming | mark |
| 22 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 coming | nsubj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 coming | aux |
| 24 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 propound | parataxis |
| 25 | along | along | ADV | _ | 24 coming | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 saw | punct |
| 27 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 saw | nsubj |
| 28 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 coming | conj |
| 29 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 saw | xcomp |
| 30 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 saw | xcomp |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 road | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 road | det |
| 33 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 lying | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 took | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 took | cc |
| 36 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 took | nsubj |
| 37 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 saw | parataxis |
| 38 | up | up | ADP | _ | 37 took | compound:prt |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 Good | det |
| 40 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 took | obj |
| 41 | with | with | ADP | _ | 42 Good | case |
| 42 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 Good | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 placed | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 placed | cc |
| 45 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 took | conj |
| 46 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 placed | obj |
| 47 | in | in | ADP | _ | 50 Good | case |
| 48 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 50 Good | nmod:poss |
| 49 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 Good | amod |
| 50 | Good | good | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 placed | obl |
| 51 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 propound | punct |
| 52 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 propound | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | you | the presence of the Princess | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into presence=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | propound | imperative | you not said here | a riddle | Anna | this words | tree rules | ||
| 3 | come along | past · progressive | we | along property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | past | we | good property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | lie | gerund | we not said here | the road | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on road=Location | ||||
| 6 | take up | past | we | the Good | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Theme | ||||
| 7 | place | past | we not said here | riddle | our own Good | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in good=Destination |
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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