Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 74

But the youngest princess, the Cordelia of the family, when she is asked whether she will marry the man who has helped her father in his need, replies:

Who acts: maid, man · What happens: ask, marry, help, need · To what, where: maid, man, father, need

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 (maid, man), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 princess	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 princess	det
3	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 princess	amod
4	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Cordelia	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Cordelia	det
7	Cordelia	Cordelia	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 princess	appos
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 family	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 family	det
10	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Cordelia	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 asked	punct
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 asked	advmod
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 asked	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 asked	aux:pass
15	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 Cordelia	acl:relcl
16	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	19 marry	mark
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 marry	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 marry	aux
19	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 asked	xcomp
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 man	det
21	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 marry	obj
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 helped	nsubj
23	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 helped	aux
24	helped	help	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 man	acl:relcl
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 father	nmod:poss
26	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 helped	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 need	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 need	nmod:poss
29	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 helped	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 replies	punct
31	replies	reply	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 man	conj
32	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 princess	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present · passive		maid			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	marry not said to happen	future	maid	the man and replies			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient
3	help	present · perfect	the man and replies		maid's father	man's need	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Beneficiary
4	need		man				nom need «state 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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