Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 61
Thereupon the princes and boyars of her council decided that the Princess must marry Prince Ivan.
Who acts: princes, Princess · What happens: decide, marry · To what, where: Prince Ivan · 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 (princes, Princess), 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 | Thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 9 decided | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 princes | det |
| 3 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 decided | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 boyars | cc |
| 5 | boyars | boyar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 princes | conj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 council | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 council | nmod:poss |
| 8 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 boyars | nmod |
| 9 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 marry | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Princess | det |
| 12 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 marry | nsubj |
| 13 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 marry | aux |
| 14 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 decided | ccomp |
| 15 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Ivan | compound |
| 16 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 marry | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 decided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | past | the princes and boyars of Anna's council | thereupon property | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | marry | must | the Princess | Prince Ivan | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ivan=Patient |
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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