Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 57
But after the elder sisters of a family have refused him, the youngest accepts him; whereupon he allows himself to be cleansed, combed, and dressed in bright apparel, and leads a cleanly and a happy life ever afterwards.
Who acts: youngest, appearance · What happens: refuse, accept, allow, cleanse, comb, dress · To what, where: elder sisters, appearance, bright apparel
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 (youngest, appearance), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 accepts | cc |
| 2 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 10 refused | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sisters | det |
| 4 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sisters | amod |
| 5 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 refused | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 family | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 family | det |
| 8 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sisters | nmod |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 refused | aux |
| 10 | refused | refuse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 accepts | advcl |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 refused | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 refused | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 youngest | det |
| 14 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 accepts | nsubj |
| 15 | accepts | accept | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 accepts | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 allows | punct |
| 18 | whereupon | whereupon | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 allows | advmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 allows | nsubj |
| 20 | allows | allow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 accepts | conj |
| 21 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 allows | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 cleansed | mark |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 cleansed | aux:pass |
| 24 | cleansed | cleanse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 allows | xcomp |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 combed | punct |
| 26 | combed | comb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 cleansed | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 dressed | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 dressed | cc |
| 29 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 combed | conj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 apparel | case |
| 31 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 apparel | amod |
| 32 | apparel | apparel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 dressed | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 leads | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 leads | cc |
| 35 | leads | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 accepts | conj |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 cleanly | det |
| 37 | cleanly | cleanly | ADV | _ | 35 leads | advmod |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 life | cc |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 life | det |
| 40 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 life | amod |
| 41 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 leads | conj |
| 42 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 43 afterwards | advmod |
| 43 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 35 leads | advmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 accepts | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refuse | present · perfect · passive | the elder sisters of a family | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | accept | present | the youngest | appearance | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | allow | present | appearance | appearance | whereupon property | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer himself=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | cleanse not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | appearance not said here | vn groom-41.1.2 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 5 | comb | participle | appearance not said here | vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | dress | participle | appearance not said here | bright apparel | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | lead | present | the youngest not said here | afterwards, cleanly property | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
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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