Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 79
The Princess Helena asked for her bridegroom, wanted to show him to the world at large, wanted to give him half her kingdom; but the bridegroom did not put in an appearance!
Who acts: Princess Helena, bridegroom · What happens: ask, want, show, give, not put · To what, where: brother, appearance
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 (Princess Helena, bridegroom), 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 | 3 Helena | det |
| 2 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Helena | compound |
| 3 | Helena | Helena | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | nsubj |
| 4 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 bridegroom | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 bridegroom | nmod:poss |
| 7 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 wanted | punct |
| 9 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 asked | parataxis |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 show | mark |
| 11 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 wanted | xcomp |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 show | iobj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 world | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 world | det |
| 15 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 show | obl |
| 16 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 19 wanted | mark |
| 17 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 wanted | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 large | punct |
| 19 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 show | advcl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 give | mark |
| 21 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 wanted | xcomp |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 give | iobj |
| 23 | half | half | ADP | _ | 25 kingdom | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 25 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 give | obl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 put | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 put | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 bridegroom | det |
| 29 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 put | nsubj |
| 30 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 put | aux |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 put | advmod |
| 32 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 asked | conj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 appearance | case |
| 34 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 appearance | det |
| 35 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 put | obl |
| 36 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the Princess Helena | for Helena's bridegroom | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | want | past | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | show not said to happen | to-infinitive | brother | to the world | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Topic to world=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | want | past | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | give not said to happen | to-infinitive | brother | half Helena's kingdom | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 6 | not put | past · do-support | the bridegroom | a appearance | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in appearance=Destination |
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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