Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 115
A princess is so fond of her marble bath, which is "like a little sea," with high spiked walls all around it, that she vows she will marry no one who cannot jump across it on horseback.
Who acts: princess, marble bath, one · What happens: be, spike, vow, marry, not jump · To what, where: one, door
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 (princess, marble bath, one), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 princess | det |
| 2 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fond | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fond | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 fond | advmod |
| 5 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 bath | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 bath | nmod:poss |
| 8 | marble | marble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bath | amod |
| 9 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fond | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sea | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 sea | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 sea | cop |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 sea | punct |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 sea | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 sea | det |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 sea | amod |
| 17 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bath | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 walls | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 walls | punct |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 walls | case |
| 21 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 walls | amod |
| 22 | spiked | spike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 walls | amod |
| 23 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 bath | conj |
| 24 | all | all | ADV | _ | 26 it | advmod |
| 25 | around | around | ADP | _ | 26 it | case |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 walls | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 vows | punct |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 vows | mark |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 vows | nsubj |
| 30 | vows | vow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fond | conj |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 marry | nsubj |
| 32 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 marry | aux |
| 33 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 vows | xcomp |
| 34 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 35 one | det |
| 35 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 marry | obj |
| 36 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 jump | nsubj |
| 37 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 jump | aux |
| 38 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 39 jump | advmod |
| 39 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 one | acl:relcl |
| 40 | across | across | ADP | _ | 41 it | case |
| 41 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 jump | obl |
| 42 | on | on | ADP | _ | 43 horseback | case |
| 43 | horseback | horseback | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 jump | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fond | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a princess | of princess's marble bath and a little sea and high spiked walls around door; fond property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | princess's marble bath and a little sea and high spiked walls around door | like a little sea | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | spike | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | vow | present | princess | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | marry not said to happen | future | princess | no one | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | ||||
| 6 | not jump | can | no one | door | on horseback | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across it=Trajectory |
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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