Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 131
Deeming her presence unfortunate, he offers a hundred thousand purses of gold to anyone who will marry her and take her away.
Who acts: king · What happens: deem, offer, marry, take away · To what, where: presence, thousand purses, anyone, daughter
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 (king), 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 | Deeming | deem | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 offers | csubj |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 presence | nmod:poss |
| 3 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Deeming | obj |
| 4 | unfortunate | unfortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 presence | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Deeming | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 offers | nsubj |
| 7 | offers | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 hundred | det |
| 9 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 thousand | compound |
| 10 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 purses | nummod |
| 11 | purses | purse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 offers | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 gold | case |
| 13 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 purses | nmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 anyone | case |
| 15 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 offers | obl |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 marry | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 marry | aux |
| 18 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 anyone | acl:relcl |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 marry | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 take | cc |
| 21 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 marry | conj |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 take | obj |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 21 take | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 offers | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deem | gerund | daughter's presence | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent presence=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | offer | present | king | thousand purses of gold | anyone | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent purse=Theme to anyone=Goal | |||
| 3 | marry | future | daughter | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | |||||
| 4 | take away | infinitive | daughter | away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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