Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 121
In another story in the same collection a king believes that his wife will be able to confer on him by her magic skill "a most celestial figure," and under that impression confides to her all his secrets, after which she brings about his death.
Who acts: king, wife, adviser · What happens: believe, be, confer, confide, bring, die · To what, where: story, adviser, impression · Speech: someone speaks here
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, wife, adviser), 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 | _ | 3 story | case |
| 2 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 story | det |
| 3 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 believes | obl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 collection | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 collection | det |
| 6 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 collection | amod |
| 7 | collection | collection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 story | nmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 believes | nsubj |
| 10 | believes | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 able | mark |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 wife | nmod:poss |
| 13 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 able | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 able | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 able | cop |
| 16 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 believes | ccomp |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 confer | mark |
| 18 | confer | confer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 able | xcomp |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 confer | obl |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 skill | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 skill | nmod:poss |
| 23 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 skill | compound |
| 24 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 confer | obl |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 figure | punct |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 figure | det |
| 27 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 29 figure | amod |
| 28 | celestial | celestial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 figure | compound |
| 29 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 skill | appos |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 figure | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 figure | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 confides | cc |
| 33 | under | under | ADP | _ | 35 impression | case |
| 34 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 35 impression | det |
| 35 | impression | impression | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 confides | obl |
| 36 | confides | confide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 confer | conj |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 her | case |
| 38 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 confides | obl |
| 39 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 41 secrets | det:predet |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 secrets | nmod:poss |
| 41 | secrets | secret | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 confides | conj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 brings | punct |
| 43 | after | after | ADP | _ | 44 which | case |
| 44 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 46 brings | obl |
| 45 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 brings | nsubj |
| 46 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 secrets | acl:relcl |
| 47 | about | about | ADP | _ | 49 death | case |
| 48 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 death | nmod:poss |
| 49 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 brings | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 believes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | present | a king | another story in the same collection | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | future | King's wife | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | confer | to-infinitive | King's wife not said here | on King; by adviser's magic skill | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on he=Topic | ||||
| 4 | confide speech: other | present | King's wife not said here | adviser | that impression | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient | |||
| 5 | bring | present | adviser | after King's secrets | about King's death | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | |||
| 6 | die | King | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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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