Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 4
The Witch-Queen is put to death, and Nikita lives happily as the King's Prime Minister.
Who acts: Nikita · What happens: put, live · To what, where: Witch Queen
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 (Nikita), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Queen | det |
| 2 | Witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Queen | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Witch | punct |
| 4 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 put | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 put | aux:pass |
| 6 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 death | case |
| 8 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lives | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 lives | cc |
| 11 | Nikita | Nikita | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 lives | nsubj |
| 12 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 put | conj |
| 13 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 12 lives | advmod |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 Minister | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 King | det |
| 16 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Minister | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 King | case |
| 18 | Prime | Prime | PROPN | _ | 19 Minister | compound |
| 19 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 lives | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | present · passive | the Witch Queen | to death | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal | ||||
| 2 | live | present | Nikita | as the King's Prime Minister; happily property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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