Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 82
This went on for three years, at the end of which time it fell to the lot of the king's daughter to be sacrificed by the monster.
Who acts: This, end, monster · What happens: go on, fall, sacrifice · To what, where: end, time
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 (This, end, monster), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 2 went | compound:prt |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 years | case |
| 5 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 years | nummod |
| 6 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 end | punct |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 end | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 end | det |
| 10 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 time | case |
| 12 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 13 time | det |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 end | nmod |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 fell | nsubj |
| 15 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 time | acl:relcl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 lot | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 lot | det |
| 18 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fell | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 daughter | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 king | det |
| 21 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 king | case |
| 23 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lot | nmod |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 sacrificed | mark |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 sacrificed | aux:pass |
| 26 | sacrificed | sacrifice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 daughter | acl |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 29 monster | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 monster | det |
| 29 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 sacrificed | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | This | at the end of which time; year | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at end=Location | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | end | which time not said here | to the lot of the king's daughter result | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient time=Extent to lot=Result | |||
| 3 | sacrifice | to-infinitive · passive | the monster | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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