Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 97
It had been predicted that a certain baby princess would begin flying about the world as soon as she was fifteen.
Who acts: certain baby princess, princess · What happens: predict, begin, fly, be · To what, where: power
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (certain baby princess, princess), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 predicted | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 predicted | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 predicted | aux:pass |
| 4 | predicted | predict | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 begin | mark |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 princess | det |
| 7 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 princess | amod |
| 8 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 princess | compound |
| 9 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 begin | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 begin | aux |
| 11 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 predicted | advcl |
| 12 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 begin | xcomp |
| 13 | about | about | ADP | _ | 15 world | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 world | det |
| 15 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 flying | obl |
| 16 | as | as | ADV | _ | 17 soon | advmod |
| 17 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 flying | advmod |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 fifteen | case |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 fifteen | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 fifteen | cop |
| 21 | fifteen | fifteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 soon | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 predicted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | predict | past · perfect · passive | power | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 2 | begin | would | a certain baby princess | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | fly | gerund | a certain baby princess not said here | about the world; soon property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about world=Location | ||||
| 4 | is | past | princess | as fifteen | 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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