Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 32
At that very time there came tidings from the King, that his daughter, the Princess Helena the Fair, had ordered a shrine to be built for her with twelve columns, with twelve rows of beams.
Who acts: daughter · What happens: come, order, build · To what, where: tidings, shrine
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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 time | det |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 time | advmod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 came | expl |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | tidings | tiding | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 came | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 King | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 King | det |
| 10 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 tidings | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 ordered | punct |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 ordered | mark |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 14 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ordered | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Helena | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Helena | det |
| 17 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Helena | compound |
| 18 | Helena | Helena | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 daughter | appos |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Fair | det |
| 20 | Fair | Fair | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Helena | flat |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 daughter | punct |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 ordered | aux |
| 23 | ordered | order | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 came | parataxis |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 shrine | det |
| 25 | shrine | shrine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ordered | obj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 built | mark |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 built | aux:pass |
| 28 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 ordered | advcl |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 her | case |
| 30 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 built | obl |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 columns | case |
| 32 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 columns | nummod |
| 33 | columns | column | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 built | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 rows | punct |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 rows | case |
| 36 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 rows | nummod |
| 37 | rows | row | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 columns | conj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 beams | case |
| 39 | beams | beam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 rows | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | tidings | there | time | from the King | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tiding=Theme | ||
| 2 | order | past · perfect | King's daughter | a shrine | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shrine=Theme | ||||
| 3 | build | to-infinitive · passive | King's daughter not said here | for daughter; with twelve columns and twelve rows of beams | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: for she=Beneficiary |
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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