Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 147

A certain moujik, named Nikita Koltoma, offers to show him where a princess lives who answers to this description, and goes forth with him in search of her.

Who acts: certain moujik, princess · What happens: name, offer, show, live, answer, go · To what, where: certain moujik, moujik, search, Princess · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (certain moujik, 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 moujik	det
2	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 moujik	amod
3	moujik	moujik	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 offers	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 named	punct
5	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 moujik	acl
6	Nikita	Nikita	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 named	xcomp
7	Koltoma	Koltoma	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Nikita	flat
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 offers	punct
9	offers	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 show	mark
11	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 offers	xcomp
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 show	iobj
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 lives	advmod
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 princess	det
15	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lives	nsubj
16	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 show	ccomp
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 answers	nsubj
18	answers	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 lives	ccomp
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 description	case
20	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 description	det
21	description	description	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 answers	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 goes	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 goes	cc
24	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 offers	conj
25	forth	forth	ADV	_	24 goes	advmod
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 goes	obl
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 search	case
29	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 goes	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 her	case
31	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 search	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 offers	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	name	participle		a certain moujik not said here				vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	offer	present	a certain moujik					tree rules
3	show not said to happen	to-infinitive	a certain moujik not said here		moujik			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	live	present	a princess					tree rules
5	answer speech: assert	present					to this description	vn subordinate-95.2.1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to description=Co-Agent
6	go	present	a certain moujik not said here			search of Princess	with moujik; forth property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary
7	search			Princess				nom search «act transitive»: of=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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