Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 117
A third king's daughter lives in a garden "hedged round with seven hedges made of bayonets," by which her suitors are generally transfixed.
Who acts: daughter · What happens: live, hedge, make, transfix · To what, where: garden, seven hedges, suitors
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 (daughter), 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 | 3 king | det |
| 2 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 king | amod |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 king | case |
| 5 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lives | nsubj |
| 6 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 garden | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 garden | det |
| 9 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lives | obl |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 garden | punct |
| 11 | hedged | hedge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 garden | acl |
| 12 | round | round | ADV | _ | 11 hedged | advmod |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 hedges | case |
| 14 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 hedges | nummod |
| 15 | hedges | hedge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 hedged | obl:agent |
| 16 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 hedges | acl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 bayonets | case |
| 18 | bayonets | bayonet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 made | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 lives | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 lives | punct |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 which | case |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 transfixed | obl |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 suitors | nmod:poss |
| 24 | suitors | suitor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 transfixed | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 transfixed | aux:pass |
| 26 | generally | generally | ADV | _ | 27 transfixed | advmod |
| 27 | transfixed | transfix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 lives | parataxis |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | a third king's daughter | a garden | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Location | ||||
| 2 | hedge in a quote | participle | a garden not said here | round property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make in a quote | participle | seven hedges not said here | of bayonets | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 4 | transfix | present · passive | daughter's suitors | generally property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
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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