Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 59

In one of the German versions of this story, a king's elder daughter, when asked to marry her rich but slovenly suitor, replies, "I would sooner go into the deepest water than do that."

Who acts: one, I · What happens: ask, marry, reply, go, do · To what, where: rich suitor, deepest water, that · 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: who acts (one, I), 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	_	2 one	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 replies	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 versions	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 versions	det
5	German	German	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 versions	amod
6	versions	version	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 one	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 story	case
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 story	det
9	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 versions	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 daughter	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 king	det
12	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 daughter	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 king	case
14	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 daughter	amod
15	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 versions	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 asked	punct
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 asked	advmod
18	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 versions	acl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 marry	mark
20	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 asked	xcomp
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 suitor	nmod:poss
22	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 suitor	amod
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 slovenly	cc
24	slovenly	slovenly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 rich	conj
25	suitor	suitor	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 marry	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 replies	punct
27	replies	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 go	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 go	punct
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 go	nsubj
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 go	aux
32	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	33 go	advmod
33	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 replies	conj
34	into	into	ADP	_	37 water	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 water	det
36	deepest	deep	ADJ	Degree=Sup	37 water	amod
37	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 go	obl
38	than	than	SCONJ	_	39 do	mark
39	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 go	advcl
40	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	39 do	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 replies	punct
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 replies	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	participle					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	marry not said to happen	to-infinitive		youngest's rich suitor			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suitor=Patient
3	reply speech: assert	present	one of the German versions of this story and a king's elder daughter				vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	go in a quote	would	I		the deepest water	soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into water=Initial_Location
5	do in a quote	infinitive	I not said here	that			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality

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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