Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 54
Well, by this accident the youth got himself a capital bride.
Who acts: youth · What happens: get · To what, where: youth
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 (youth), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 8 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 accident | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 accident | det |
| 5 | accident | accident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 got | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 youth | det |
| 7 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 got | nsubj |
| 8 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 got | obj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bride | det |
| 11 | capital | capital | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bride | amod |
| 12 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 got | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the youth | youth | by this accident | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary 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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