Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 17
Next morning the old man brought in the twelve fair maidens--one just like another--and ordered the youth to choose his bride.
Who acts: old man · What happens: bring, order, choose · To what, where: old man, twelve fair maidens, youth, bride
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 morning | amod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ordered | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ordered | nsubj |
| 6 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 man | acl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 maidens | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 maidens | det |
| 9 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 maidens | nummod |
| 10 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 maidens | amod |
| 11 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 brought | obl |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 one | punct |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 maidens | appos |
| 14 | just | just | ADV | _ | 16 another | advmod |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 another | case |
| 16 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 one | nmod |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 ordered | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 ordered | cc |
| 19 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 youth | det |
| 21 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ordered | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 choose | mark |
| 23 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 ordered | ccomp |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 bride | nmod:poss |
| 25 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 choose | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | participle | the old man not said here | the twelve fair maidens | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | order | past | the old man | the youth | morning | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent youth=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 3 | choose not said to happen | to-infinitive | the old man not said here | man's bride | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=Theme |
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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