Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 102
[343] In a third story,[344] the conditions of winning the princely bride are easier, for "he who takes a leap on horseback, and kisses the king's daughter on the balcony, to him will they give her to wife."
Who acts: 344 conditions, 343, brother, conditions · What happens: win, be, take, kiss, give · To what, where: princely bride, leap, horseback, daughter, balcony, wife · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (344 conditions, 343, brother, conditions), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 343 | punct |
| 2 | 343 | 343 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 easier | nsubj |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 343 | punct |
| 4 | In | in | ADP | _ | 7 story | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 story | det |
| 6 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 story | amod |
| 7 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 343 | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 344 | punct |
| 9 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 10 344 | punct |
| 10 | 344 | 344 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 conditions | nummod |
| 11 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 10 344 | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 conditions | det |
| 13 | conditions | condition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 easier | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 15 winning | mark |
| 15 | winning | win | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 conditions | acl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bride | det |
| 17 | princely | princely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 bride | amod |
| 18 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 winning | obj |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 easier | cop |
| 20 | easier | easy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 takes | punct |
| 22 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 26 takes | mark |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 takes | punct |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 takes | nsubj |
| 25 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 takes | nsubj |
| 26 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 easier | advcl |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 leap | det |
| 28 | leap | leap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 takes | obj |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 horseback | case |
| 30 | horseback | horseback | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 takes | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 kisses | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 kisses | cc |
| 33 | kisses | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 easier | conj |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 king | det |
| 35 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 36 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 35 king | case |
| 37 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 kisses | obj |
| 38 | on | on | ADP | _ | 40 balcony | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 balcony | det |
| 40 | balcony | balcony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 kisses | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 give | punct |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 him | case |
| 43 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 give | obl |
| 44 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 46 give | aux |
| 45 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 give | nsubj |
| 46 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 easier | parataxis |
| 47 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 give | iobj |
| 48 | to | to | PART | _ | 49 wife | mark |
| 49 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 give | xcomp |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 easier | punct |
| 51 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 easier | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | gerund | the 344 conditions not said here | the princely bride | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is | present | 343 in a third story | easy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take in a quote | present | brother | a leap | horseback | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent leap=Theme on horseback=Destination | |||
| 4 | kiss in a quote | present | 343 in a third story not said here | the king's daughter | the balcony | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Co-Agent | |||
| 5 | give in a quote | future | conditions = condition | wife | daughter | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Theme to he=Recipient |
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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