Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 139
Whichever of the two should marry first was to invite his comrade to his wedding.
Who acts: two, Whichever · What happens: marry, be, wed · To what, where: Whichever
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two, Whichever), 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 | Whichever | Whichever | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 invite | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 6 marry | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 two | det |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 marry | nsubj |
| 5 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 marry | aux |
| 6 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Whichever | acl |
| 7 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 marry | advmod |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 invite | cop |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 invite | mark |
| 10 | invite | invite | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 comrade | nmod:poss |
| 12 | comrade | comrade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 invite | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 wedding | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 wedding | nmod:poss |
| 15 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 invite | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 invite | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | should | the two | Whichever not said here | first property | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whichever=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | past | Whichever | to Whichever's wedding; invite property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wed | Whichever | nom wedding «event transitive»: poss=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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