Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 60
In a Russian version,[469] the unwashed soldier lends a large sum of money to an impoverished monarch, who cannot pay his troops, and asks his royal creditor to give him one of his daughters in marriage by way of recompense.
Who acts: unwashed soldier, impoverished monarch · What happens: lend, impoverish, not pay, ask, give, sum · To what, where: large sum, impoverished monarch, Russian version, troops, royal creditor, one · 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 (unwashed soldier, impoverished monarch), 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 | _ | 4 version | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 version | det |
| 3 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 version | amod |
| 4 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lends | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 469 | punct |
| 6 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 7 469 | punct |
| 7 | 469 | 469 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 version | appos |
| 8 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 7 469 | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 soldier | det |
| 10 | unwashed | unwashed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 soldier | amod |
| 11 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lends | nsubj |
| 12 | lends | lend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 sum | det |
| 14 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sum | amod |
| 15 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lends | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 money | case |
| 17 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sum | nmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 monarch | case |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 monarch | det |
| 20 | impoverished | impoverish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 monarch | amod |
| 21 | monarch | monarch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lends | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 pay | punct |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 pay | nsubj |
| 24 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 pay | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 pay | advmod |
| 26 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 monarch | acl:relcl |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 troops | nmod:poss |
| 28 | troops | troops | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 26 pay | iobj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 asks | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 asks | cc |
| 31 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 lends | conj |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 creditor | nmod:poss |
| 33 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 creditor | amod |
| 34 | creditor | creditor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 asks | obj |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 give | mark |
| 36 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 asks | ccomp |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 give | iobj |
| 38 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 36 give | obj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 daughters | case |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 41 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 one | nmod |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 marriage | case |
| 43 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 daughters | nmod |
| 44 | by | by | ADP | _ | 45 way | case |
| 45 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 give | obl |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 recompense | case |
| 47 | recompense | recompense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 way | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 lends | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lend | present | the unwashed soldier | a large sum of money | a impoverished monarch | a Russian version | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent sum=Theme to monarch=Recipient | ||
| 2 | impoverish | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | not pay | can | a impoverished monarch | soldier's troops | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent troops=Asset | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | present | the unwashed soldier not said here | soldier's royal creditor | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent creditor=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | give not said to happen | to-infinitive | one of soldier's daughters in marriage | soldier | by way of recompense | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient one=Theme | |||
| 6 | sum | money | nom sum «possession 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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