Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 33
In that shrine she was sitting upon a high throne, and awaiting her bridegroom, the bold youth who, with a single bound of his swift steed, should reach high enough to kiss her on the lips.
Who acts: daughter, bold youth · What happens: sit, await, reach, kiss · To what, where: shrine, bridegroom, daughter, lips
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, bold youth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg22373:3625): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 shrine | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 shrine | det |
| 3 | shrine | shrine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sitting | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sitting | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sitting | aux |
| 6 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 throne | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 throne | det |
| 9 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 throne | amod |
| 10 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sitting | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 awaiting | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 awaiting | cc |
| 13 | awaiting | await | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 sitting | conj |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 bridegroom | nmod:poss |
| 15 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 awaiting | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 youth | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 youth | det |
| 18 | bold | bold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 youth | amod |
| 19 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bridegroom | appos |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 reach | nsubj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 bound | punct |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 bound | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 bound | det |
| 24 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 bound | amod |
| 25 | bound | bound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 reach | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 steed | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 steed | nmod:poss |
| 28 | swift | swift | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 steed | amod |
| 29 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 bound | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 bound | punct |
| 31 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 reach | aux |
| 32 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 youth | acl:relcl |
| 33 | high | high | ADV | Degree=Pos | 32 reach | advmod |
| 34 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 33 high | advmod |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 kiss | mark |
| 36 | kiss | kiss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 high | advcl |
| 37 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 kiss | obj |
| 38 | on | on | ADP | _ | 40 lips | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 lips | det |
| 40 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 kiss | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sitting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past · progressive | daughter | that shrine | upon a high throne | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in shrine=Location | |||
| 2 | await | gerund | daughter not said here | daughter's bridegroom | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | reach | should | the bold youth | with a single bound of bridegroom's swift steed; high property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | kiss | to-infinitive | the bold youth not said here | daughter | the lips | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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