Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 146

In one of them[325] a king promises to reward with vast wealth anyone who will find him "a bride fairer than the sun, brighter than the moon, and whiter than snow."

Who acts: one · What happens: promise, reward, find · To what, where: king

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 (one), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 one	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 promises	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 one	nmod
5	[	[	PUNCT	_	6 325	punct
6	325	325	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 one	appos
7	]	]	PUNCT	_	6 325	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 king	det
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 promises	nsubj
10	promises	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 reward	mark
12	reward	reward	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 promises	xcomp
13	with	with	ADP	_	16 anyone	case
14	vast	vast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 anyone	amod
15	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 anyone	compound
16	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 reward	obl
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 find	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 find	aux
19	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 anyone	acl:relcl
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 find	obj
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 fairer	punct
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 bride	det
23	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fairer	obl:unmarked
24	fairer	fair	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 find	parataxis
25	than	than	ADP	_	27 sun	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 sun	det
27	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fairer	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 brighter	punct
29	brighter	bright	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 fairer	conj
30	than	than	ADP	_	32 moon	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 moon	det
32	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 brighter	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 whiter	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 whiter	cc
35	whiter	white	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 promises	conj
36	than	than	ADP	_	37 snow	case
37	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 whiter	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 promises	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 promises	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	present	one of variants			vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	reward not said to happen	to-infinitive	one of variants not said here		with anyone	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent with anyone=Theme
3	find	future		king		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=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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