Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 106

The king, exceedingly embarrassed, called the princesses together, and asked which of them would consent to accept the dreaded suitor (who, of course, had not paid the slightest attention to his toilette for hundreds of centuries).

What happens: call, ask, consent, accept, dread, not pay · To what, where: princesses, dreaded suitor, slightest attention · Speech: someone speaks here

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: 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 embarrassed	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 embarrassed	punct
4	exceedingly	exceedingly	ADV	_	5 embarrassed	advmod
5	embarrassed	embarrassed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 called	punct
7	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 embarrassed	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 princesses	det
9	princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 called	obj
10	together	together	ADV	_	7 called	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 asked	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 asked	cc
13	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 embarrassed	parataxis
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 consent	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 consent	obl
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 consent	aux
18	consent	consent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 asked	ccomp
19	to	to	PART	_	20 accept	mark
20	accept	accept	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 consent	xcomp
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 suitor	det
22	dreaded	dread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 suitor	amod
23	suitor	suitor	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 accept	obj
24	(	(	PUNCT	_	25 who	punct
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 suitor	acl:relcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 course	punct
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 course	case
28	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 who	nsubj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 paid	punct
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 paid	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 paid	advmod
32	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 asked	conj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 attention	det
34	slightest	slight	ADJ	Degree=Sup	35 attention	amod
35	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 paid	obj
36	to	to	ADP	_	38 toilette	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 toilette	nmod:poss
38	toilette	toilette	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 paid	obl
39	for	for	ADP	_	40 hundreds	case
40	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 paid	obl
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 centuries	case
42	centuries	century	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 hundreds	nmod
43	)	)	PUNCT	_	13 asked	punct
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 embarrassed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	call	participle		the princesses	together property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent princess=Recipient
2	ask speech: ask	past				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	consent	would			of princesses = princess	tree rules
4	accept	to-infinitive	the dreaded suitor			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suitor=Theme
5	dread	participle				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
6	not pay	past · perfect	the slightest attention		to king's toilette; for hundreds of centuries	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent attention=Asset for hundred=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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