Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 78

Their younger brother went there too, but on foot, meekly and modestly, just as if he hadn't kissed the Princess, and seated himself in a distant corner.

Who acts: younger brother, brother · What happens: go, not kiss, seat · To what, where: Princess, brother, distant corner

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 (younger brother, brother), 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	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 brother	nmod:poss
2	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 brother	amod
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 went	advmod
6	too	too	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 meekly	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 meekly	cc
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 foot	case
10	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 meekly	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 foot	punct
12	meekly	meekly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 went	parataxis
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 modestly	cc
14	modestly	modestly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 meekly	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 kissed	punct
16	just	just	ADV	_	22 kissed	advmod
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 kissed	mark
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 kissed	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 kissed	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 kissed	aux
21	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 kissed	advmod
22	kissed	kiss	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 meekly	parataxis
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Princess	det
24	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 kissed	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 seated	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 seated	cc
27	seated	seat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
28	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 seated	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	32 corner	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 corner	det
31	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 corner	amod
32	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 seated	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	go	past	nobles's younger brother		there	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not kiss a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	brother	the Princess		vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Co-Agent
3	seat	past	nobles's younger brother not said here	brother	a distant corner	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Value in corner=Location

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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