Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 99
In another, a king offers his daughter and half his kingdom to him "who can kiss the princess through twelve sheets of glass."
Who acts: king · What happens: offer, kiss · To what, where: daughter, brother, another, princess, twelve sheets · 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), 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 | _ | 2 another | case |
| 2 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 offers | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 another | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 offers | nsubj |
| 6 | offers | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 8 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 offers | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 kingdom | cc |
| 10 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 12 kingdom | det:predet |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 12 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 daughter | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 offers | obl |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 kiss | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 kiss | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 kiss | aux |
| 18 | kiss | kiss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 offers | parataxis |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 princess | det |
| 20 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 kiss | obj |
| 21 | through | through | ADP | _ | 23 sheets | case |
| 22 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 sheets | nummod |
| 23 | sheets | sheet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 kiss | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 glass | case |
| 25 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sheets | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 kiss | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 kiss | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer | present | a king | King's daughter and King's kingdom | brother | another | tree rules | ||
| 2 | kiss in a quote | can | the princess | twelve sheets of glass | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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