Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 111
In a Celtic story,[348] a king promises his daughter, and two-thirds of his kingdom, to anyone who can get her out of a turret which "was aloft, on the top of four carraghan towers."
Who acts: king, turret · What happens: promise, get, be · To what, where: two thirds, daughter, Celtic story, turret, top · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (king, turret), 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 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 story | det |
| 3 | Celtic | celtic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 story | amod |
| 4 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 promises | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 348 | punct |
| 6 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 7 348 | punct |
| 7 | 348 | 348 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 story | appos |
| 8 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 7 348 | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 promises | nsubj |
| 11 | promises | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 13 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 promises | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 thirds | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 thirds | cc |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 thirds | nummod |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 two | punct |
| 18 | thirds | third | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 promises | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 kingdom | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 21 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 thirds | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 anyone | punct |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 anyone | case |
| 24 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 promises | conj |
| 25 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 get | nsubj |
| 26 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 get | aux |
| 27 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 anyone | acl:relcl |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 get | obj |
| 29 | out | out | ADP | _ | 32 turret | case |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 turret | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 turret | det |
| 32 | turret | turret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 get | obl |
| 33 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 aloft | nsubj |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 aloft | punct |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 aloft | cop |
| 36 | aloft | aloft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 turret | acl:relcl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 top | punct |
| 38 | on | on | ADP | _ | 40 top | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 top | det |
| 40 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 aloft | obl |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 towers | case |
| 42 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 44 towers | nummod |
| 43 | carraghan | carraghan | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 towers | amod |
| 44 | towers | tower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 top | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 promises | punct |
| 46 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 promises | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | present | a king | two thirds of story's kingdom | story's daughter | a Celtic story | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme | ||
| 2 | get | can | daughter | a turret | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | past | a turret | the top of four carraghan towers | aloft property | tree rules |
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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