Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 118
In another Norse tale, that of "Peik" (Asbjoernsen's New Series, No. 101, p. 219) a king is induced to kill his wife and his daughter in the mistaken belief that he will be able to restore them to life.
Who acts: No. · What happens: induce, kill, be, restore · To what, where: that, Norse tale, wife, mistaken belief, Asbjoernsen, life
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (No.), 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 | _ | 4 tale | case |
| 2 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 tale | det |
| 3 | Norse | norse | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tale | amod |
| 4 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 induced | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 tale | punct |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 induced | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Peik | case |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Peik | punct |
| 9 | Peik | Peik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 induced | obl |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Peik | punct |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 Asbjoernsen | punct |
| 12 | Asbjoernsen | Asbjoernsen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 induced | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 Asbjoernsen | case |
| 14 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Asbjoernsen | flat |
| 15 | Series | Series | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Asbjoernsen | flat |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 No. | punct |
| 17 | No. | No. | PROPN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 12 Asbjoernsen | conj |
| 18 | 101 | 101 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 No. | flat |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 p. | punct |
| 20 | p. | P. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Asbjoernsen | conj |
| 21 | 219 | 219 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 Asbjoernsen | list |
| 22 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 12 Asbjoernsen | punct |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 king | det |
| 24 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Asbjoernsen | appos |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 induced | aux:pass |
| 26 | induced | induce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 kill | mark |
| 28 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 induced | xcomp |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 wife | nmod:poss |
| 30 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 kill | obj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 daughter | cc |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 33 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 wife | conj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 belief | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 belief | det |
| 36 | mistaken | mistaken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 belief | amod |
| 37 | belief | belief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 kill | obl |
| 38 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 42 able | mark |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 able | nsubj |
| 40 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 able | aux |
| 41 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 42 able | cop |
| 42 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 kill | advcl |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 restore | mark |
| 44 | restore | restore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 able | xcomp |
| 45 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 restore | obj |
| 46 | to | to | ADP | _ | 47 life | case |
| 47 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 restore | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 induced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | induce | present · passive | that | another Norse tale | of Peik | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | |||
| 2 | kill | to-infinitive | No.'s wife and No.'s daughter | the mistaken belief | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | future | No. | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | restore | to-infinitive | No. not said here | Asbjoernsen | life | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to life=Recipient |
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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