Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 106
In the Norse story of "Dapplegrim,"[346] a younger brother saves a princess who had been stolen by a Troll, and hidden in a cave above a steep wall of rock as smooth as glass.
Who acts: younger brother, Troll · What happens: save, steal, hide · To what, where: 346, Norse story, princess, cave
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 (younger brother, Troll), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 story | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 story | det |
| 3 | Norse | norse | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 story | amod |
| 4 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 saves | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Dapplegrim | case |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Dapplegrim | punct |
| 7 | Dapplegrim | Dapplegrim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 story | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 story | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 346 | punct |
| 10 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 11 346 | punct |
| 11 | 346 | 346 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 saves | obl |
| 12 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 11 346 | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 brother | det |
| 14 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 brother | amod |
| 15 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 saves | nsubj |
| 16 | saves | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 princess | det |
| 18 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 saves | obj |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 stolen | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 stolen | aux |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 stolen | aux:pass |
| 22 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 princess | acl:relcl |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 Troll | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 Troll | det |
| 25 | Troll | troll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stolen | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 hidden | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 hidden | cc |
| 28 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 saves | advcl |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 cave | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 cave | det |
| 31 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 hidden | obl |
| 32 | above | above | ADP | _ | 35 wall | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 wall | det |
| 34 | steep | steep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 wall | amod |
| 35 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 cave | nmod |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 rock | case |
| 37 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 wall | nmod |
| 38 | as | as | ADV | _ | 39 smooth | advmod |
| 39 | smooth | smooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 rock | amod |
| 40 | as | as | ADP | _ | 41 glass | case |
| 41 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 smooth | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 saves | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save | present | a younger brother | 346 | the Norse story of Dapplegrim | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme | |||
| 2 | steal | past · perfect · passive | a Troll | a princess | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hide | participle | a younger brother not said here | a cave above a steep wall of rock | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cave=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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