Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 24

In that country the King's daughter lay at the point of death, and the King had given notice that to him who should cure his daughter he would give half of his kingdom, and half of his goods and possessions; but if any one undertook to cure her and failed, he should have his head chopped off and hung up on a stake.

Who acts: daughter, King, given notice, one, head · What happens: lie, give, cure, undertake, fail, have · To what, where: country, given notice, half, daughter, stake, death

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 (daughter, King, given notice, 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 country	case
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 country	det
3	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lay	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 King	det
5	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 daughter	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 King	case
7	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lay	nsubj
8	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 point	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 point	det
11	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lay	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 death	case
13	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 point	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 notice	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 given	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 King	det
17	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 given	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 given	aux
19	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 notice	amod
20	notice	notice	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lay	parataxis
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 cure	obj
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 that	obl
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 cure	nsubj
25	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 cure	aux
26	cure	cure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 notice	acl:relcl
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 daughter	nmod:poss
28	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 cure	obj
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 give	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 give	aux
31	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 cure	conj
32	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	31 give	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 kingdom	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 kingdom	nmod:poss
35	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 half	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 half	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 half	cc
38	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	8 lay	parataxis
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 goods	case
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 goods	nmod:poss
41	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	38 half	nmod
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 possessions	cc
43	possessions	possession	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 goods	conj
44	;	;	PUNCT	_	49 undertook	punct
45	but	but	CCONJ	_	49 undertook	cc
46	if	if	SCONJ	_	49 undertook	mark
47	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	48 one	det
48	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 undertook	nsubj
49	undertook	undertake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 lay	conj
50	to	to	PART	_	51 cure	mark
51	cure	cure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 undertook	xcomp
52	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 cure	obj
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 failed	cc
54	failed	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 undertook	conj
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 have	punct
56	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 have	nsubj
57	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	58 have	aux
58	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	54 failed	ccomp
59	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	60 head	nmod:poss
60	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 chopped	nsubj
61	chopped	chop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 have	parataxis
62	off	off	ADP	_	61 chopped	compound:prt
63	and	and	CCONJ	_	64 hung	cc
64	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 undertook	conj
65	up	up	ADP	_	64 hung	compound:prt
66	on	on	ADP	_	68 stake	case
67	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	68 stake	det
68	stake	stake	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 hung	obl
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie	past	the King's daughter		that country	at the point of death	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in country=Location
2	give	past · perfect	the King				vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	cure	should	given notice	given notice			tree rules
4	give	would	King	half of King's kingdom			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Theme
5	undertake a condition, not said to happen	past	any one				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	cure	to-infinitive	any one not said here	daughter			vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer she=Source
7	fail	past	any one not said here				vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
8	have	should	King				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
9	chop off	past	King's head				vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
10	hang up	past	any one not said here		a stake		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stake=Location
11	point			death			nom point «cognition transitive»: of=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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