Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 61

The King was going to put him to death, but he had a daughter, and she took a tremendous liking to the fool.

Who acts: King, stove · What happens: go, put, have, take · To what, where: King, daughter, tremendous liking, fool

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, stove), 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	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 going	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 going	aux
4	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 put	mark
6	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 going	xcomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 put	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 death	case
9	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 had	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 going	parataxis
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 daughter	det
15	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 took	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 took	cc
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 took	nsubj
19	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 had	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 liking	det
21	tremendous	tremendous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 liking	amod
22	liking	liking	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 took	obj
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 fool	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 fool	det
25	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 took	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past · progressive	the King					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	put	to-infinitive	the King not said here		King		to death	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal
3	have	past	King	a daughter				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
4	take	past	stove	a tremendous liking		the fool		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent liking=Theme to fool=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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