Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 127
So she was shut up in a coffin and placed in a church, and her hand, with half the kingdom as her dowry, was offered to any one who could disenchant her.
Who acts: one · What happens: shut up, place, offer, disenchant · To what, where: daughter, coffin, church, hand, one
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 (one), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 shut | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 shut | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shut | aux:pass |
| 4 | shut | shut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 shut | compound:prt |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 coffin | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 coffin | det |
| 8 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shut | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 placed | cc |
| 10 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 shut | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 church | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 church | det |
| 13 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 placed | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 offered | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 offered | cc |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 hand | nmod:poss |
| 17 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 offered | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 kingdom | punct |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 kingdom | case |
| 20 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 22 kingdom | det:predet |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 kingdom | det |
| 22 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hand | conj |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 dowry | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 dowry | nmod:poss |
| 25 | dowry | dowry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 kingdom | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hand | punct |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 offered | aux:pass |
| 28 | offered | offer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 shut | conj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 one | case |
| 30 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 31 one | det |
| 31 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 offered | obl |
| 32 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 disenchant | nsubj |
| 33 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 disenchant | aux |
| 34 | disenchant | disenchant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 one | acl:relcl |
| 35 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 disenchant | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shut up | past · passive | daughter | a coffin | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | place | participle | a church | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in church=Destination | |||||
| 3 | offer | past · passive | daughter's hand and half kingdom as daughter's dowry | any one | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme to one=Goal | ||||
| 4 | disenchant | could | any one | daughter | 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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