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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

casedetamodoblpunctpunctappospunctdetnsubjnmod:possobjpunctccnummodpunctoblcasenmod:possnmodpunctcaseconjnsubjauxacl:relclobjcasecasedetoblnsubjpunctcopacl:relclpunctcasedetoblcasenummodamodnmodpunctpunctrootInADPaDETCelticADJstoryNOUN,PUNCT[PUNCT348NUM]PUNCTaDETkingNOUNpromisesVERBhisPRONdaughterNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJtwoNUM-PUNCTthirdsNOUNofADPhisPRONkingdomNOUN,PUNCTtoADPanyonePRONwhoPRONcanAUXgetVERBherPRONoutADPofADPaDETturretNOUNwhichPRON"PUNCTwasAUXaloftADJ,PUNCTonADPtheDETtopNOUNofADPfourNUMcarraghanADJtowersNOUN.PUNCT"PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1IninADP_4 storycase
2aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art4 storydet
3CelticcelticADJDegree=Pos4 storyamod
4storystoryNOUNNumber=Sing11 promisesobl
5,,PUNCT_7 348punct
6[[PUNCT_7 348punct
7348348NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card4 storyappos
8]]PUNCT_7 348punct
9aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art10 kingdet
10kingkingNOUNNumber=Sing11 promisesnsubj
11promisespromiseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
12hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs13 daughternmod:poss
13daughterdaughterNOUNNumber=Sing11 promisesobj
14,,PUNCT_18 thirdspunct
15andandCCONJ_18 thirdscc
16twotwoNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card18 thirdsnummod
17--PUNCT_16 twopunct
18thirdsthirdNOUNNumber=Plur11 promisesobl
19ofofADP_21 kingdomcase
20hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs21 kingdomnmod:poss
21kingdomkingdomNOUNNumber=Sing18 thirdsnmod
22,,PUNCT_24 anyonepunct
23totoADP_24 anyonecase
24anyoneanyonePRONNumber=Sing PronType=Ind11 promisesconj
25whowhoPRONPronType=Rel27 getnsubj
26cancanAUXVerbForm=Fin27 getaux
27getgetVERBVerbForm=Inf24 anyoneacl:relcl
28hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs27 getobj
29outoutADP_32 turretcase
30ofofADP_32 turretcase
31aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art32 turretdet
32turretturretNOUNNumber=Sing27 getobl
33whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel36 aloftnsubj
34""PUNCT_36 aloftpunct
35wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin36 aloftcop
36aloftaloftADJDegree=Pos32 turretacl:relcl
37,,PUNCT_40 toppunct
38ononADP_40 topcase
39thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art40 topdet
40toptopNOUNNumber=Sing36 aloftobl
41ofofADP_44 towerscase
42fourfourNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card44 towersnummod
43carraghancarraghanADJDegree=Pos44 towersamod
44towerstowerNOUNNumber=Plur40 topnmod
45..PUNCT_11 promisespunct
46""PUNCT_11 promisespunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1promise speech: promisepresenta kingtwo thirds of story's kingdomstory's daughtera Celtic storyvn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme
2getcandaughtera turretvn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
3is in a quotepasta turretthe top of four carraghan towersaloft propertytree 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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