Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 116
Another princess determines to marry him only who can leap into the glass palace in which she dwells, surrounded by a wide river; and many kings and princes perish miserably in attempting to perform the feat.
Who acts: princess, many kings · What happens: determine, marry, leap, dwell, surround, perish · To what, where: story, glass palace, feat
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, many kings), 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 | Another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 princess | det |
| 2 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 determines | nsubj |
| 3 | determines | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 marry | mark |
| 5 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 determines | xcomp |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 marry | obj |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 leap | advmod |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 leap | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 leap | aux |
| 10 | leap | leap | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 marry | advcl |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 palace | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 palace | det |
| 13 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 palace | compound |
| 14 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 leap | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 which | case |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 dwells | obl |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 dwells | nsubj |
| 18 | dwells | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 palace | acl:relcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 surrounded | punct |
| 20 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 dwells | advcl |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 river | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 river | det |
| 23 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 river | amod |
| 24 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 perish | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 perish | cc |
| 27 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 kings | amod |
| 28 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 perish | nsubj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 princes | cc |
| 30 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 kings | conj |
| 31 | perish | perish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 determines | conj |
| 32 | miserably | miserably | ADV | _ | 31 perish | advmod |
| 33 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 34 attempting | mark |
| 34 | attempting | attempt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 perish | advcl |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 perform | mark |
| 36 | perform | perform | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 attempting | xcomp |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 feat | det |
| 38 | feat | feat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 perform | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 determines | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | determine | present | another princess | vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | marry | to-infinitive | another princess not said here | story | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 3 | leap | can | the glass palace | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into palace=Destination | |||||
| 4 | dwell | present | princess | the glass palace | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location | ||||
| 5 | surround | participle | princess not said here | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | perish | present | many kings and princes | miserably property | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 7 | attempt | gerund | many kings and princes not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 8 | perform not said to happen | to-infinitive | many kings and princes not said here | the feat | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feat=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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