Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 104
At the first trial, the _Durak_, or Fool, reaches the first floor, at the next, the second; and the third time, "he bounds right up to the princess, and carries off from her a ring."
Who acts: Durak · What happens: reach, bound, carry off · To what, where: first floor, first trial, ring
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 (Durak), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 trial | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 trial | det |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 trial | amod |
| 4 | trial | trial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 reaches | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 trial | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Durak | det |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 Durak | punct |
| 8 | Durak | Durak | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 reaches | nsubj |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 Durak | punct |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Fool | punct |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 Fool | cc |
| 12 | Fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Durak | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Durak | punct |
| 14 | reaches | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 floor | det |
| 16 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 17 floor | amod |
| 17 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 reaches | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 next | punct |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 next | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 next | det |
| 21 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 reaches | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 second | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 second | det |
| 24 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 21 next | conj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 bounds | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 bounds | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 time | det |
| 28 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 29 time | amod |
| 29 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 bounds | obl:unmarked |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 time | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 time | punct |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 bounds | nsubj |
| 33 | bounds | bound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 reaches | conj |
| 34 | right | right | ADV | _ | 33 bounds | advmod |
| 35 | up | up | ADP | _ | 38 princess | case |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 princess | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 princess | det |
| 38 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 bounds | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 carries | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 carries | cc |
| 41 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 reaches | conj |
| 42 | off | off | ADP | _ | 41 carries | compound:prt |
| 43 | from | from | ADP | _ | 44 her | case |
| 44 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 carries | obl |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 ring | det |
| 46 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 carries | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 reaches | punct |
| 48 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 reaches | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | present | the Durak | the first floor | the first trial | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent floor=Theme at trial=Asset | |||
| 2 | bound in a quote | present | Durak | time | up the princess; right property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme up princess=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | carry off in a quote | present | the Durak not said here | a ring | from princess | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent ring=Theme from she=Initial_Location |
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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