Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 65
The eldest princess sees that "the picture is that of a monster, with dishevelled hair, and uncut nails, and unwiped nose," and cries:
Who acts: eldest princess, picture · What happens: see, be, cry · To what, where: uncut nails · 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 (eldest princess, picture), 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 | 3 princess | det |
| 2 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 princess | amod |
| 3 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sees | nsubj |
| 4 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 monster | mark |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 monster | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 picture | det |
| 8 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 monster | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 monster | cop |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 monster | mark |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 monster | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 monster | det |
| 13 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sees | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hair | punct |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 hair | case |
| 16 | dishevelled | dishevelled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hair | amod |
| 17 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 monster | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 nails | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 nails | cc |
| 20 | uncut | uncut | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 nails | amod |
| 21 | nails | nail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sees | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 nose | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 nose | cc |
| 24 | unwiped | unwiped | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 nose | amod |
| 25 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sees | parataxis |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 nose | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 nose | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 cries | cc |
| 29 | cries | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sees | conj |
| 30 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 sees | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | the eldest princess | uncut nails | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | the picture | of a monster and dishevelled hair | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | present | the eldest princess not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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