Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 93
The Princess always sees for herself whether all the cows are there."
Who acts: Princess, cows · What happens: see, be
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 (Princess, cows), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Princess | det |
| 2 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sees | nsubj |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 sees | advmod |
| 4 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 herself | case |
| 6 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 sees | obl |
| 7 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 12 there | mark |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 cows | det:predet |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cows | det |
| 10 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 there | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 there | cop |
| 12 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 sees | advcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sees | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sees | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | the Princess | for Princess; always property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | present | all cows | there property | tree rules |
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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