Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 97

In one case,[341] a king promises to give his daughter to anyone "who can pluck her portrait from the house, from the other side of ever so many beams."

Who acts: king, daughter · What happens: promise, give, pluck, portray · To what, where: one case, daughter, other side, portrait, house · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (king, 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 case	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 case	nummod
3	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 promises	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 341	punct
5	[	[	PUNCT	_	6 341	punct
6	341	341	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 case	appos
7	]	]	PUNCT	_	6 341	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 king	det
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 promises	nsubj
10	promises	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 give	mark
12	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 promises	xcomp
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	12 give	iobj
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 anyone	case
16	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 give	obl
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 anyone	punct
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 pluck	nsubj
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 pluck	aux
20	pluck	pluck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 anyone	acl:relcl
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 portrait	nmod:poss
22	portrait	portrait	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pluck	obj
23	from	from	ADP	_	25 house	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 house	det
25	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pluck	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 side	punct
27	from	from	ADP	_	30 side	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 side	det
29	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 side	amod
30	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 give	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	35 beams	case
32	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	34 many	advmod
33	so	so	ADV	_	34 many	advmod
34	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 beams	amod
35	beams	beam	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 side	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 promises	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 promises	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	present	a king			one case		vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	give not said to happen	to-infinitive	a king not said here		King's daughter	the other side of many beams	to anyone	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme to anyone=Recipient
3	pluck in a quote	can		daughter's portrait		the house		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent portrait=Theme from house=Source
4	portray in a quote		daughter					nom portrait «communication transitive»: poss=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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