Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 53

When she was informed of this, the Princess gave orders that the Prince should enter the palace, and there in the presence of all the princes and boyars of her council should propound his riddle.

Who acts: Princess, Prince · What happens: inform, give, enter, propound, riddle · To what, where: Anna, orders, palace, riddle

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 (Princess, Prince), 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	4 informed	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 informed	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 informed	aux:pass
4	informed	inform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 propound	advcl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 this	case
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 informed	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 gave	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Princess	det
9	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 gave	nsubj
10	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 informed	conj
11	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 gave	obj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 enter	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Prince	det
14	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 enter	nsubj
15	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 enter	aux
16	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 gave	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 palace	det
18	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 enter	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 there	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 there	cc
21	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 gave	conj
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 presence	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 presence	det
24	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 there	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 princes	case
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 princes	det:predet
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 princes	det
28	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 presence	nmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 boyars	cc
30	boyars	boyar	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 princes	conj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 council	case
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 council	nmod:poss
33	council	council	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 boyars	nmod
34	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 propound	aux
35	propound	propound	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 riddle	nmod:poss
37	riddle	riddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 propound	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	35 propound	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	inform speech: other	past · passive		Anna	of this	vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: subject=Recipient of this=Topic
2	give	past	the Princess	orders		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme
3	enter	should	the Prince	the palace		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme palace=Destination
4	propound	should		Prince's riddle		tree rules
5	riddle		Prince			nom riddle «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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