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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

detpunctauxconjmarkxcompdetobjnsubjauxadvmodacl:relclcaseoblcasedetnummodoblaclcaseoblpunctcccasedetnummodamodoblnsubjacl:relclnmod:possobjpunctpunctccpunctnsubj:passcasenmodcasenmodauxconjmarkxcompobjpunctccconjcasedetoblpunctpunctrootADETfourthADJ"PUNCThasAUXvowedVERBtoPARTmarryVERBnoDETmanNOUNwhoPRONcanAUXnotPARTjumpVERBonADPfootNOUNoverADPtheDETsevenNUMhedgesNOUNmadeVERBofADPspearsNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJacrossADPtheDETsevenNUMgreatADJditchesNOUNthatPRONsurroundVERBherPRONhouseNOUN;PUNCT"PUNCTandCCONJ"PUNCThundredsNOUNofADPthousandsNOUNofADPRajahsNOUNhaveAUXtriedVERBtoPARTdoVERBitPRON,PUNCTandCCONJdiedVERBinADPtheDETattemptNOUN.PUNCT"PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art2 fourthdet
2fourthfourthADJDegree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ordrootroot
3""PUNCT_5 vowedpunct
4hashaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin5 vowedaux
5vowedvowVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part2 fourthconj
6totoPART_7 marrymark
7marrymarryVERBVerbForm=Inf5 vowedxcomp
8nonoDETPronType=Neg9 mandet
9manmanNOUNNumber=Sing7 marryobj
10whowhoPRONPronType=Rel13 jumpnsubj
11cancanAUXVerbForm=Fin13 jumpaux
12notnotPARTPolarity=Neg13 jumpadvmod
13jumpjumpVERBVerbForm=Inf9 manacl:relcl
14ononADP_15 footcase
15footfootNOUNNumber=Sing13 jumpobl
16overoverADP_19 hedgescase
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 hedgesdet
18sevensevenNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card19 hedgesnummod
19hedgeshedgeNOUNNumber=Plur13 jumpobl
20mademakeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass19 hedgesacl
21ofofADP_22 spearscase
22spearsspearNOUNNumber=Plur20 madeobl
23,,PUNCT_29 ditchespunct
24andandCCONJ_29 ditchescc
25acrossacrossADP_29 ditchescase
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 ditchesdet
27sevensevenNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card29 ditchesnummod
28greatgreatADJDegree=Pos29 ditchesamod
29ditchesditchNOUNNumber=Plur7 marryobl
30thatthatPRONPronType=Rel31 surroundnsubj
31surroundsurroundVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin29 ditchesacl:relcl
32herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs33 housenmod:poss
33househouseNOUNNumber=Sing31 surroundobj
34;;PUNCT_2 fourthpunct
35""PUNCT_2 fourthpunct
36andandCCONJ_44 triedcc
37""PUNCT_44 triedpunct
38hundredshundredNOUNNumber=Plur44 triednsubj:pass
39ofofADP_40 thousandscase
40thousandsthousandNOUNNumber=Plur38 hundredsnmod
41ofofADP_42 Rajahscase
42RajahsrajahNOUNNumber=Plur40 thousandsnmod
43havehaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin44 triedaux
44triedtryVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass2 fourthconj
45totoPART_46 domark
46dodoVERBVerbForm=Inf44 triedxcomp
47ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs46 doobj
48,,PUNCT_50 diedpunct
49andandCCONJ_50 diedcc
50dieddieVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 fourthconj
51ininADP_53 attemptcase
52thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art53 attemptdet
53attemptattemptNOUNNumber=Sing50 diedobl
54..PUNCT_2 fourthpunct
55""PUNCT_2 fourthpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1vow in a quotepresent · perfecttree rules
2marry not said to happen, in a quoteto-infinitiveno manthe seven great ditchesvn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient
3not jump in a quotecanno manfootover the seven hedgesvn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on foot=Trajectory
4make in a quoteparticiplethe seven hedges not said hereof spearsvn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
5surround in a quotepresentthe seven great ditchesdaughter's housevn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Co-Theme
6try in a quotepresent · perfect · passivehundreds of thousands of Rajahstree rules
7do not said to happen, in a quoteto-infinitivehousevn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
8die in a quotepastin the attemptvn 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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