Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 134
In an Indian story,[363] a hero undertakes to watch beside the couch of a haunted princess.
Who acts: hero · What happens: undertake, watch, haunt · To what, where: Indian story, couch
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hero), 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 | _ | 4 story | case |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 story | det |
| 3 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 story | amod |
| 4 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 undertakes | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 363 | punct |
| 6 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 7 363 | punct |
| 7 | 363 | 363 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 story | appos |
| 8 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 7 363 | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 hero | det |
| 10 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 undertakes | nsubj |
| 11 | undertakes | undertake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 watch | mark |
| 13 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 undertakes | xcomp |
| 14 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 16 couch | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 couch | det |
| 16 | couch | couch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 watch | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 princess | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 princess | det |
| 19 | haunted | haunt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 princess | amod |
| 20 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 couch | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 undertakes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | undertake | present | a hero | a Indian story | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | watch | to-infinitive | a hero not said here | the couch of a haunted princess | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside couch=Location | ||||
| 3 | haunt | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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