Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 125
She confessed all her sins, and swore an oath always to love Prince Ivan, and to obey him in all things.
Who acts: Princess · What happens: confess, swear, love, obey · To what, where: sins, oath, Prince Ivan, Ivan, things
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 confessed | nsubj |
| 2 | confessed | confess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 sins | det:predet |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 sins | nmod:poss |
| 5 | sins | sin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 confessed | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 swore | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 swore | cc |
| 8 | swore | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 confessed | parataxis |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 oath | det |
| 10 | oath | oath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 swore | obj |
| 11 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 8 swore | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 love | mark |
| 13 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 swore | advcl |
| 14 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Ivan | compound |
| 15 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 love | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 obey | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 obey | cc |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 obey | mark |
| 19 | obey | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 confessed | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 obey | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 things | case |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 things | det |
| 23 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 obey | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 confessed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | confess | past | Princess | Princess's sins | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sin=Topic | ||||
| 2 | swear | past | a oath | always property | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent oath=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | love | to-infinitive | Prince Ivan | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ivan=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | obey | to-infinitive | Princess not said here | Ivan | all things | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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