Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 132
For a long time no man takes advantage of the offer, but at last a blind man, who goes about led by a hunchback named Mantharaka or Cripple, marries her, receives the gold, and is sent far away with his wife and his friend.
Who acts: man, blind man · What happens: take, go about, lead, name, marry, receive · To what, where: advantage, hunchback, cripple, last, gold
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 (man, blind man), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 takes | obl |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 man | det |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 takes | nsubj |
| 7 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | advantage | advantage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 takes | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 offer | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 offer | det |
| 11 | offer | offer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 advantage | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 marries | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 marries | cc |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 last | case |
| 15 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 marries | obl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 man | det |
| 17 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 man | amod |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 last | nsubj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 goes | punct |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 goes | nsubj |
| 21 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 man | acl:relcl |
| 22 | about | about | ADV | _ | 23 led | advmod |
| 23 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 goes | xcomp |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 hunchback | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 hunchback | det |
| 26 | hunchback | hunchback | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 led | obl |
| 27 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 hunchback | acl |
| 28 | Mantharaka | Mantharaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 named | xcomp |
| 29 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 30 Cripple | cc |
| 30 | Cripple | Cripple | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Mantharaka | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 last | punct |
| 32 | marries | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 takes | conj |
| 33 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 marries | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 receives | punct |
| 35 | receives | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 marries | conj |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 gold | det |
| 37 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 receives | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 sent | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 sent | cc |
| 40 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 sent | aux:pass |
| 41 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 takes | parataxis |
| 42 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 43 away | advmod |
| 43 | away | away | ADV | _ | 41 sent | advmod |
| 44 | with | with | ADP | _ | 46 wife | case |
| 45 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 wife | nmod:poss |
| 46 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 sent | obl |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 friend | cc |
| 48 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 friend | nmod:poss |
| 49 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 wife | conj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 takes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | no man | advantage of the offer | time | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advantage=Theme | |||
| 2 | go about | present | a blind man | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | lead | participle | a blind man not said here | by a hunchback; about property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by hunchback=Destination | ||||
| 4 | name | participle | a hunchback not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | marry | present | no man not said here | cripple | last | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | |||
| 6 | receive | present | no man not said here | the gold | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme | ||||
| 7 | send | present · passive | with man's wife and man's friend; away property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP» |
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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