Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 70
When the second princess is asked whether she will marry the soldier, she exclaims:
Who acts: monarch · What happens: ask, marry, exclaim · To what, where: second princess, soldier
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 (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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 asked | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 princess | det |
| 3 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 princess | amod |
| 4 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 asked | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 asked | aux:pass |
| 6 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 exclaims | advcl |
| 7 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 10 marry | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 marry | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 marry | aux |
| 10 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 asked | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 soldier | det |
| 12 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 marry | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 asked | punct |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 exclaims | nsubj |
| 15 | exclaims | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 exclaims | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present · passive | the second princess | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | marry not said to happen | future | monarch | the soldier | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=Patient | ||||
| 3 | exclaim speech: express | present | monarch | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: 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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