Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 105
At last he emerged from his ecstasy, and felt inclined to marry, so he went to a neighboring palace, and asked the king to bestow upon him one of his daughters.
Who acts: body · What happens: emerge, feel, marry, go, neighbor, ask · To what, where: last, neighboring palace, king, one
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (body), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 emerged | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 emerged | nsubj |
| 4 | emerged | emerge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 ecstasy | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 ecstasy | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ecstasy | ecstasy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 emerged | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 felt | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 felt | cc |
| 10 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 emerged | parataxis |
| 11 | inclined | inclined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 felt | xcomp |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 marry | mark |
| 13 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 inclined | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 went | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 went | nsubj |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 felt | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 palace | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 palace | det |
| 20 | neighboring | neighbor | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 palace | amod |
| 21 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 went | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 asked | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 asked | cc |
| 24 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 emerged | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 king | det |
| 26 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 asked | obj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 bestow | mark |
| 28 | bestow | bestow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 asked | xcomp |
| 29 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 30 him | case |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 bestow | obl |
| 31 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 bestow | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 daughters | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 34 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 one | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 emerged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | emerge | past | body | last | from body's ecstasy | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location | |||
| 2 | feel | past | inclined property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | marry | to-infinitive | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | go | past | body | a neighboring palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | neighbor | gerund | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | ask speech: ask | past | body not said here | the king | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent king=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 7 | bestow not said to happen | to-infinitive | body not said here | one of body's daughters | upon body | tree rules |
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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