Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 155
Then she invites the king and his suite to the palace, having prepared in the mean time a gigantic bow fitted with a fiery arrow, wherewith to annihilate her guests.
Who acts: Helena · What happens: invite, prepare, fit, annihilate · To what, where: king, gigantic bow, guests
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 (Helena), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 invites | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 invites | nsubj |
| 3 | invites | invite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 invites | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 suite | cc |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 suite | nmod:poss |
| 8 | suite | suite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 king | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 palace | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 palace | det |
| 11 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 invites | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 prepared | punct |
| 13 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 prepared | aux |
| 14 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 invites | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 time | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 time | det |
| 17 | mean | mean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 time | amod |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 prepared | obl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 bow | det |
| 20 | gigantic | gigantic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 bow | amod |
| 21 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 time | appos |
| 22 | fitted | fit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 bow | acl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 arrow | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 arrow | det |
| 25 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 arrow | amod |
| 26 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fitted | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 annihilate | punct |
| 28 | wherewith | wherewith | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 annihilate | advmod |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 annihilate | mark |
| 30 | annihilate | annihilate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 arrow | acl:relcl |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 guests | nmod:poss |
| 32 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 annihilate | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 invites | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invite | present | Helena | the king and king's suite | then | to the palace | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Recipient | ||
| 2 | prepare | gerund · perfect | Helena not said here | time | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | fit | participle | a gigantic bow not said here | with a fiery arrow | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | annihilate | to-infinitive | Helena's guests | wherewith property | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guest=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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