Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 11
After a time, they carry off a princess who is suffering from some mysterious disease, and take her to their forest home.
Who acts: heroes, princess · What happens: carry off, suffer, take · To what, where: princess, mysterious disease, forest
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 (heroes, 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 carry | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 carry | nsubj |
| 6 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 carry | compound:prt |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 princess | det |
| 9 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 carry | obj |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 suffering | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 suffering | aux |
| 12 | suffering | suffer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 princess | acl:relcl |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 disease | case |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 disease | det |
| 15 | mysterious | mysterious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 disease | amod |
| 16 | disease | disease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 suffering | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 take | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 take | cc |
| 19 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 carry | conj |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 take | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 forest | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 forest | nmod:poss |
| 23 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 take | obl |
| 24 | home | home | ADV | _ | 19 take | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 carry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry off | present | heroes = hero | a princess | time | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme | |||
| 2 | suffer | present · progressive | a princess | some mysterious disease | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | take | infinitive | heroes = hero not said here | princess | heroes's forest | home property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to forest=Destination |
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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