Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 52
"I have come from such-and-such a kingdom, and I wish to sue for the hand of the Princess Anna the Fair."
Who acts: Prince Ivan · What happens: come, wish, sue · To what, where: such kingdom
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 (Prince Ivan), 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 | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 come | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | aux |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 kingdom | case |
| 6 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 kingdom | amod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 kingdom | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 kingdom | cc |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 and | punct |
| 10 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 kingdom | det:predet |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 kingdom | det |
| 12 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 come | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wish | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 wish | cc |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 wish | nsubj |
| 16 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 sue | mark |
| 18 | sue | sue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 wish | xcomp |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 hand | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 hand | det |
| 21 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sue | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Anna | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Anna | det |
| 24 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Anna | compound |
| 25 | Anna | Anna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 hand | nmod |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Fair | det |
| 27 | Fair | Fair | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Anna | flat |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | present · perfect | Prince Ivan = ivan | such such kingdom | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from kingdom=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | wish in a quote | present | Prince Ivan = ivan | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | sue not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Prince Ivan = ivan 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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