Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 63

At last, he tells the soldier to get his portrait painted, and promises to show it to the princesses, and see if one of them will accept him.

Who acts: king, soldier, portrait, one · What happens: tell, get, paint, promise, show, see · To what, where: soldier, last, portrait, princesses, king · 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 (king, soldier, portrait, one), 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	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tells	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 last	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tells	nsubj
5	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 soldier	det
7	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tells	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 get	mark
9	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tells	xcomp
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 portrait	nmod:poss
11	portrait	portrait	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 painted	nsubj
12	painted	paint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 get	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 promises	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 promises	cc
15	promises	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 tells	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 show	mark
17	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 promises	xcomp
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 show	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 princesses	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 princesses	det
21	princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 show	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 see	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 see	cc
24	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 show	conj
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 accept	mark
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 accept	nsubj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 them	case
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 one	nmod
29	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 accept	aux
30	accept	accept	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 see	ccomp
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 accept	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tells	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	king	the soldier		last	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent soldier=Recipient clause=Topic
2	get not said to happen	to-infinitive	the soldier not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	paint	past	king's portrait				vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	promise speech: promise	present	king not said here				vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	show not said to happen	to-infinitive	king not said here	portrait	the princesses		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to princess=Recipient
6	see	infinitive	king not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	accept a condition, not said to happen	future	one of princesses	king			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
8	portray		king				nom portrait «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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