Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 118
A fourth "has vowed to marry no man who cannot jump on foot over the seven hedges made of spears, and across the seven great ditches that surround her house;" and "hundreds of thousands of Rajahs have tried to do it, and died in the attempt."
Who acts: man, seven great ditches · What happens: vow, marry, not jump, make, surround, try · To what, where: man, seven great ditches, foot, seven hedges, house, hundreds
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 (man, seven great ditches), 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 fourth | det |
| 2 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | root | root |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 vowed | punct |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 vowed | aux |
| 5 | vowed | vow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 fourth | conj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 marry | mark |
| 7 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 vowed | xcomp |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 man | det |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 marry | obj |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 jump | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 jump | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 jump | advmod |
| 13 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 man | acl:relcl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 foot | case |
| 15 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 jump | obl |
| 16 | over | over | ADP | _ | 19 hedges | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 hedges | det |
| 18 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 hedges | nummod |
| 19 | hedges | hedge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 jump | obl |
| 20 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 hedges | acl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 spears | case |
| 22 | spears | spear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 made | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 ditches | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 ditches | cc |
| 25 | across | across | ADP | _ | 29 ditches | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 ditches | det |
| 27 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 ditches | nummod |
| 28 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 ditches | amod |
| 29 | ditches | ditch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 marry | obl |
| 30 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 surround | nsubj |
| 31 | surround | surround | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 ditches | acl:relcl |
| 32 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 house | nmod:poss |
| 33 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 surround | obj |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 fourth | punct |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 fourth | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 tried | cc |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 44 tried | punct |
| 38 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 tried | nsubj:pass |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 thousands | case |
| 40 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 hundreds | nmod |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 Rajahs | case |
| 42 | Rajahs | rajah | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 thousands | nmod |
| 43 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 tried | aux |
| 44 | tried | try | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 fourth | conj |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 do | mark |
| 46 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 tried | xcomp |
| 47 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 do | obj |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 died | punct |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 died | cc |
| 50 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 fourth | conj |
| 51 | in | in | ADP | _ | 53 attempt | case |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 attempt | det |
| 53 | attempt | attempt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 died | obl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fourth | punct |
| 55 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 fourth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vow in a quote | present · perfect | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | marry not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | no man | the seven great ditches | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not jump in a quote | can | no man | foot | over the seven hedges | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on foot=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | make in a quote | participle | the seven hedges not said here | of spears | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 5 | surround in a quote | present | the seven great ditches | daughter's house | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Co-Theme | ||||
| 6 | try in a quote | present · perfect · passive | hundreds of thousands of Rajahs | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | do not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | house | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | |||||
| 8 | die in a quote | past | in the attempt | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in attempt=Attribute |
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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