Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 109
In another story St. Nicholas comes to the aid of an adventurer who watches beside the coffin of a bewitched princess.
Who acts: Nicholas, adventurer · What happens: come, watch, bewitch · To what, where: story, coffin
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nicholas, adventurer), 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 | _ | 3 story | case |
| 2 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 story | det |
| 3 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 comes | obl |
| 4 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Nicholas | nmod:desc |
| 5 | Nicholas | Nicholas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 comes | nsubj |
| 6 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 aid | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 aid | det |
| 9 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 comes | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 adventurer | case |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 adventurer | det |
| 12 | adventurer | adventurer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 aid | nmod |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 watches | nsubj |
| 14 | watches | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 adventurer | acl:relcl |
| 15 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 17 coffin | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 coffin | det |
| 17 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 watches | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 princess | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 princess | det |
| 20 | bewitched | bewitch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 princess | amod |
| 21 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 coffin | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | Nicholas St. | another story | to the aid of a adventurer | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to aid=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | watch | present | a adventurer | the coffin of a bewitched princess | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside coffin=Location | ||||
| 3 | bewitch | 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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