Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 95

The soldier wanted to marry one of three princesses, but the elder one and the second one told their father that they'd sooner marry the devil than the soldier.

Who acts: soldier, elder one · What happens: want, marry, tell · To what, where: one, father, devil · 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 (soldier, elder 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 soldier	det
2	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 marry	mark
5	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wanted	xcomp
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 marry	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 princesses	case
8	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 princesses	nummod
9	princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 one	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 told	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 told	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 one	det
13	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 one	amod
14	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 told	nsubj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 one	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 one	det
17	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	18 one	amod
18	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 one	conj
19	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wanted	conj
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 father	nmod:poss
21	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 told	iobj
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 'd	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 'd	nsubj
24	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 told	advcl
25	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	26 marry	advmod
26	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 'd	xcomp
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 devil	det
28	devil	devil	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 marry	obj
29	than	than	ADP	_	31 soldier	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 soldier	det
31	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 devil	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	want	past	the soldier				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	marry not said to happen	to-infinitive	the soldier not said here	one of three princesses			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
3	tell speech: assert	past	the elder one and the second one		princesses's father		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent father=Recipient
4	marry	infinitive	the elder one and the second one not said here	the devil		than the soldier; soon property	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent devil=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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