Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 140
In a certain country there lived a King; and this King had a daughter who was an enchantress.
Who acts: King, daughter · What happens: live, have, be · To what, where: King, certain country, daughter, enchantress
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 (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 | _ | 4 country | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 country | det |
| 3 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 country | amod |
| 4 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obl |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 lived | advmod |
| 6 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 had | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 had | cc |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 King | det |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 had | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lived | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 daughter | det |
| 15 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 had | obj |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 enchantress | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 enchantress | cop |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 enchantress | det |
| 19 | enchantress | enchantress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 daughter | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a King | a certain country; there | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme king=Location | ||||
| 2 | have | past | this King | a daughter and a enchantress | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | a daughter and a enchantress | a enchantress | tree rules |
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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