Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7, sentence 3
A soldier--the fairy prince in a lower form--comes to her rescue, and awaits the arrival of the fiend in her room, which he has had brilliantly lighted.
Who acts: soldier, spirit, room, fiend · What happens: come, await, have, light, rescue, arrive · To what, where: rescue, arrival, room
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: who acts (soldier, spirit, room, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 soldier | det |
| 2 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 comes | nsubj |
| 3 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 6 prince | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 prince | det |
| 5 | fairy | fairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 prince | amod |
| 6 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 soldier | appos |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 form | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 form | det |
| 9 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 form | amod |
| 10 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 prince | nmod |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 2 soldier | punct |
| 12 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 rescue | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 rescue | nmod:poss |
| 15 | rescue | rescue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 comes | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 awaits | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 awaits | cc |
| 18 | awaits | await | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 comes | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 arrival | det |
| 20 | arrival | arrival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 awaits | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 fiend | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 fiend | det |
| 23 | fiend | fiend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 arrival | nmod |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 room | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 room | nmod:poss |
| 26 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 awaits | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 had | punct |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 had | obj |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 had | nsubj |
| 30 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 had | aux |
| 31 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 room | acl:relcl |
| 32 | brilliantly | brilliantly | ADV | _ | 33 lighted | advmod |
| 33 | lighted | light | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 had | xcomp |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | a soldier | soldier's rescue | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to rescue=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | await | present | a soldier not said here | the arrival of the fiend | soldier's room | tree rules | |||
| 3 | have | present · perfect | spirit | soldier's room | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | light | participle | soldier's room not said here | brilliantly property | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | rescue | soldier | nom rescue «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | arrive | the fiend | nom arrival «act intransitive»: of=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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