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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 Princess | case |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Princess | punct |
| 3 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Princess | det |
| 4 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 gains | obl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 Hill | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Hill | det |
| 7 | Glass | Glass | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Hill | compound |
| 8 | Hill | Hill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Princess | nmod |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Hill | punct |
| 10 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 11 347 | punct |
| 11 | 347 | 347 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 Hill | appos |
| 12 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 11 347 | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 hero | det |
| 14 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gains | nsubj |
| 15 | gains | gain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 Princess | det |
| 17 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gains | obj |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 wife | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 wife | nmod:poss |
| 20 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gains | obl |
| 21 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 22 riding | mark |
| 22 | riding | ride | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 gains | advcl |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 riding | compound:prt |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 hill | det |
| 25 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 riding | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 glass | case |
| 27 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hill | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 top | punct |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 top | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 top | det |
| 31 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 riding | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 which | case |
| 33 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 sits | obl |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 sits | nsubj |
| 35 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 top | acl:relcl |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 apples | case |
| 37 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 39 apples | nummod |
| 38 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 apples | amod |
| 39 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 sits | obl |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 lap | case |
| 41 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 lap | nmod:poss |
| 42 | lap | lap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 apples | nmod |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 carrying | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 carrying | cc |
| 45 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 46 carrying | mark |
| 46 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 gains | advcl |
| 47 | off | off | ADP | _ | 46 carrying | compound:prt |
| 48 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 50 fruits | det |
| 49 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 fruits | amod |
| 50 | fruits | fruit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 carrying | obj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 gains | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gain | present | the hero | a Princess | in the Princess on the Glass Hill; as story's wife | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient princess=Extent in princess=Attribute | |||
| 2 | ride up | gerund | the hero not said here | a hill of glass | the top | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hill=Theme | |||
| 3 | sit | present | princess | of the top; with three golden apples in princess's lap | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | carry off | gerund | the hero not said here | this precious fruits | vn 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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