Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 126
But after a while a misfortune befell the land in which he lived, for "an evil witch enchanted the king's daughter, who lay dead all day long, but at night got up and ate people."
Who acts: misfortune, evil witch, daughter · What happens: befall, live, enchant, lay, get up, eat · To what, where: land, people
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 (misfortune, evil witch, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 befell | cc |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 while | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 while | det |
| 4 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 befell | obl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 misfortune | det |
| 6 | misfortune | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 befell | nsubj |
| 7 | befell | befall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 land | det |
| 9 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 befell | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 lived | obl |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 lived | nsubj |
| 13 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 befell | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 enchanted | punct |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 enchanted | mark |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 enchanted | punct |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 witch | det |
| 18 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 witch | amod |
| 19 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 enchanted | nsubj |
| 20 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 lived | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 king | det |
| 22 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 king | case |
| 24 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 lay | nsubj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 lay | punct |
| 26 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 lay | nsubj |
| 27 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 enchanted | parataxis |
| 28 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 lay | xcomp |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 day | det |
| 30 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 lay | obl:unmarked |
| 31 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 27 lay | advmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 got | punct |
| 33 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 36 got | cc |
| 34 | at | at | ADP | _ | 35 night | case |
| 35 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 got | obl |
| 36 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 enchanted | parataxis |
| 37 | up | up | ADP | _ | 36 got | compound:prt |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 ate | cc |
| 39 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 got | conj |
| 40 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 ate | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 befell | punct |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 befell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | befall | past | a misfortune | the land | while | tree rules | |||
| 2 | live | past | misfortune | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location | |||||
| 3 | enchant in a quote | past | a evil witch | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | lay in a quote | present | the king's daughter | day | dead, long property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | get up in a quote | past | night | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | eat in a quote | past | people | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient |
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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