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Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 109

In "The Princess on the Glass Hill"[347] the hero gains a Princess as his wife by riding up a hill of glass, on the top of which she sits with three golden apples in her lap, and by carrying off these precious fruits.

Who acts: hero, princess · What happens: gain, ride up, sit, carry off · To what, where: Princess, hill, top, precious fruits

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 (hero, princess), 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

casepunctdetoblcasedetcompoundnmodpunctpunctappospunctdetnsubjdetobjcasenmod:possoblmarkadvclcompound:prtdetobjcasenmodpunctcasedetoblcaseoblnsubjacl:relclcasenummodamodoblcasenmod:possnmodpunctccmarkadvclcompound:prtdetamodobjpunctrootInADP"PUNCTTheDETPrincessPROPNonADPtheDETGlassPROPNHillPROPN"PUNCT[PUNCT347NUM]PUNCTtheDETheroNOUNgainsVERBaDETPrincessNOUNasADPhisPRONwifeNOUNbySCONJridingVERBupADPaDEThillNOUNofADPglassNOUN,PUNCTonADPtheDETtopNOUNofADPwhichPRONshePRONsitsVERBwithADPthreeNUMgoldenADJapplesNOUNinADPherPRONlapNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJbySCONJcarryingVERBoffADPtheseDETpreciousADJfruitsNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1IninADP_4 Princesscase
2""PUNCT_4 Princesspunct
3ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 Princessdet
4PrincessPrincessPROPNNumber=Sing15 gainsobl
5ononADP_8 Hillcase
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 Hilldet
7GlassGlassPROPNNumber=Sing8 Hillcompound
8HillHillPROPNNumber=Sing4 Princessnmod
9""PUNCT_8 Hillpunct
10[[PUNCT_11 347punct
11347347NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card8 Hillappos
12]]PUNCT_11 347punct
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 herodet
14heroheroNOUNNumber=Sing15 gainsnsubj
15gainsgainVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
16aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art17 Princessdet
17PrincessprincessNOUNNumber=Sing15 gainsobj
18asasADP_20 wifecase
19hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs20 wifenmod:poss
20wifewifeNOUNNumber=Sing15 gainsobl
21bybySCONJ_22 ridingmark
22ridingrideVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part15 gainsadvcl
23upupADP_22 ridingcompound:prt
24aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art25 hilldet
25hillhillNOUNNumber=Sing22 ridingobj
26ofofADP_27 glasscase
27glassglassNOUNNumber=Sing25 hillnmod
28,,PUNCT_31 toppunct
29ononADP_31 topcase
30thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 topdet
31toptopNOUNNumber=Sing22 ridingobl
32ofofADP_33 whichcase
33whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel35 sitsobl
34sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs35 sitsnsubj
35sitssitVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin31 topacl:relcl
36withwithADP_39 applescase
37threethreeNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card39 applesnummod
38goldengoldenADJDegree=Pos39 applesamod
39applesappleNOUNNumber=Plur35 sitsobl
40ininADP_42 lapcase
41herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs42 lapnmod:poss
42laplapNOUNNumber=Sing39 applesnmod
43,,PUNCT_46 carryingpunct
44andandCCONJ_46 carryingcc
45bybySCONJ_46 carryingmark
46carryingcarryVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part15 gainsadvcl
47offoffADP_46 carryingcompound:prt
48thesethisDETNumber=Plur PronType=Dem50 fruitsdet
49preciouspreciousADJDegree=Pos50 fruitsamod
50fruitsfruitNOUNNumber=Plur46 carryingobj
51..PUNCT_15 gainspunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1gainpresentthe heroa Princessin the Princess on the Glass Hill; as story's wifevn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient princess=Extent in princess=Attribute
2ride upgerundthe hero not said herea hill of glassthe topvn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hill=Theme
3sitpresentprincessof the top; with three golden apples in princess's lapvn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4carry offgerundthe hero not said herethis precious fruitsvn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Theme

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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