Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 98
Vanka consents, and carries the turnips to a cottage, wherein is seated "an old greybeard with horns on his head," who receives him kindly and offers him a quantity of gold as a recompense for his trouble.
Who acts: Vanka consents, boy · What happens: carry, seat, receive, offer, trouble · To what, where: turnips, cottage, old greybeard, boy, quantity
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 (Vanka consents, boy), 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 | Vanka | Vanka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 consents | compound |
| 2 | consents | consent | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 carries | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 carries | cc |
| 5 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 consents | acl:relcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 turnips | det |
| 7 | turnips | turnip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 carries | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 cottage | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 cottage | det |
| 10 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carries | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 seated | punct |
| 12 | wherein | wherein | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 seated | advmod |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 seated | aux:pass |
| 14 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 cottage | acl:relcl |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 greybeard | punct |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 greybeard | det |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 greybeard | amod |
| 18 | greybeard | greybeard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 seated | obl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 horns | case |
| 20 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 greybeard | nmod |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 head | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 head | nmod:poss |
| 23 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 greybeard | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 receives | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 receives | punct |
| 26 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 receives | nsubj |
| 27 | receives | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 carries | parataxis |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 receives | obj |
| 29 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 27 receives | advmod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 offers | cc |
| 31 | offers | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 receives | conj |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 offers | iobj |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 quantity | det |
| 34 | quantity | quantity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 offers | obj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 gold | case |
| 36 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 quantity | nmod |
| 37 | as | as | ADP | _ | 39 recompense | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 recompense | det |
| 39 | recompense | recompense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 offers | obl |
| 40 | for | for | ADP | _ | 42 trouble | case |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 trouble | nmod:poss |
| 42 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 recompense | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 consents | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | present | Vanka consents not said here | the turnips | a cottage | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent turnip=Theme to cottage=Destination | |||
| 2 | seat | present · passive | a old greybeard with horns on boy's head | wherein property | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP» | ||||
| 3 | receive | present | boy | kindly property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | offer | present | a quantity of gold | boy | as a recompense for boy's trouble | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal quantity=Theme | |||
| 5 | trouble | boy | nom trouble «cognition 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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