Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7, sentence 20
Her employers at once agreed to give her in marriage to the son of their friend, and a wedding feast was instantly prepared.
What happens: agree, give, prepare · To what, where: employers, girl, marriage, wedding feast
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 employers | nmod:poss |
| 2 | employers | employer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 agreed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 5 agreed | mark |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 agreed | advmod |
| 5 | agreed | agree | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 give | mark |
| 7 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 agreed | xcomp |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 give | iobj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 marriage | case |
| 10 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 give | obl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 son | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 son | det |
| 13 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 give | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 friend | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 friend | nmod:poss |
| 16 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 son | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 prepared | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 prepared | cc |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 feast | det |
| 20 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 feast | compound |
| 21 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 prepared | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 prepared | aux:pass |
| 23 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 24 prepared | advmod |
| 24 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 agreed | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | participle · passive | girl's employers | once property | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent that S»: subject=Co-Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | give not said to happen | to-infinitive | girl | marriage | to the son of employers's friend | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Theme to son=Recipient | |||
| 3 | prepare | past · passive | a wedding feast | instantly property | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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