Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 30

So they went into the palace, saw the Princess, and asked the King to supply them with a private apartment, a tub of water, a sharp sword, and a big table.

Who acts: doctors, big table · What happens: go, see, ask, supply · To what, where: palace, Princess, big table, King, doctors

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 (doctors, big table), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 palace	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 palace	det
6	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 saw	punct
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Princess	det
10	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 saw	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 asked	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 asked	cc
13	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 King	det
15	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 asked	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 supply	mark
17	supply	supply	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 asked	xcomp
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 supply	obj
19	with	with	ADP	_	22 apartment	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 apartment	det
21	private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 apartment	amod
22	apartment	apartment	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 supply	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 tub	punct
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 tub	det
25	tub	tub	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 apartment	appos
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 water	case
27	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 tub	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 sword	punct
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 sword	det
30	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 sword	amod
31	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 apartment	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 table	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 table	cc
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 table	det
35	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 table	amod
36	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 asked	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	doctors = doctor			the palace		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into palace=Initial_Location
2	see	past	doctors = doctor not said here	the Princess				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus
3	ask speech: ask	past	doctors = doctor not said here	a big table	the King			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent king=Recipient clause=Topic
4	supply not said to happen	to-infinitive	a big table not said here	doctors = doctor			with a private apartment and a sharp sword	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Recipient with apartment=Theme

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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