Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 49

In that country, also, the King had a daughter at the point of death, and he had given notice that whoever cured his daughter should have half of his kingdom and of his goods and possessions; but if he failed to cure her he should have his head chopped off and hung up on a stake.

Who acts: King, whoever, notice, head · What happens: have, give, cure, fail, not cure, chop off · To what, where: daughter, country, King, notice, half, stake

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

Pragmatics

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