Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 8
"To-morrow the fiend will bring you twelve maidens, each one exactly like the others.
Who acts: fiend · What happens: bring · To what, where: twelve maidens, you
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 (fiend), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 bring | punct |
| 2 | To | to | ADP | _ | 4 morrow | case |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 To | punct |
| 4 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bring | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fiend | det |
| 6 | fiend | fiend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bring | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 bring | aux |
| 8 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 bring | obj |
| 10 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 maidens | nummod |
| 11 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 bring | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 one | punct |
| 13 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 one | det |
| 14 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 maidens | nmod |
| 15 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 18 others | advmod |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 others | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 others | det |
| 18 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 bring | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring in a quote | future | the fiend | twelve maidens each one | you | to morrow; like the others | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination maiden=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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