Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 130
To a certain king a daughter is born who has three breasts.
What happens: bear, have · To what, where: daughter, three breasts
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: 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 4 king | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 3 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 king | amod |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 born | obl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 daughter | det |
| 6 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 born | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 born | aux:pass |
| 8 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 has | nsubj |
| 10 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 born | conj |
| 11 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 breasts | nummod |
| 12 | breasts | breast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 has | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 born | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | present · passive | a daughter | to a certain king | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | have | present | three breasts | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breast=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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