Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 119

In one of the stories of the "Dasakumaracharita," a king is persuaded to jump into a certain lake in the hope of obtaining a new and improved body.

Who acts: king, hope · What happens: persuade, jump, obtain, improve · To what, where: king, certain lake, new body

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 (king, hope), 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	_	2 one	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 stories	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stories	det
5	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 one	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 Dasakumaracharita	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Dasakumaracharita	det
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 Dasakumaracharita	punct
9	Dasakumaracharita	Dasakumaracharita	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 stories	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 persuaded	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 persuaded	punct
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 king	det
13	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 persuaded	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 persuaded	aux:pass
15	persuaded	persuade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 Dasakumaracharita	acl:relcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 jump	mark
17	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 persuaded	xcomp
18	into	into	ADP	_	21 lake	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 lake	det
20	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 lake	amod
21	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 jump	obl
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 hope	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 hope	det
24	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 jump	obl
25	of	of	SCONJ	_	26 obtaining	mark
26	obtaining	obtain	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 hope	acl
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 body	det
28	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 body	amod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 improved	cc
30	improved	improve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 new	conj
31	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 obtaining	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 one	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	persuade	present · passive		a king		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
2	jump	to-infinitive	a king not said here		into a certain lake result; in the hope	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into lake=Result
3	obtain	gerund	the hope not said here	a new body		vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset body=Theme
4	improve	participle	the hope not said here			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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