Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 140
So they betrothed him to a very pretty girl, and he accepted her and forgot all about the other girl who had saved him from the dragon, though she herself was the she-dragon's daughter.
Who acts: fish, damsel, girl · What happens: betroth, accept, forget, save, be · To what, where: damsel, pretty girl, girl, other girl, daughter
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Magic Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fish, damsel, girl), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 betrothed | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 betrothed | nsubj |
| 3 | betrothed | betroth | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 betrothed | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 girl | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 girl | det |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 pretty | advmod |
| 8 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 girl | amod |
| 9 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 betrothed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 accepted | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 accepted | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 accepted | nsubj |
| 13 | accepted | accept | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 betrothed | parataxis |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 accepted | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 forgot | cc |
| 16 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 accepted | conj |
| 17 | all | all | ADV | _ | 21 girl | advmod |
| 18 | about | about | ADP | _ | 21 girl | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 girl | det |
| 20 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 girl | amod |
| 21 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 forgot | obj |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 saved | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 saved | aux |
| 24 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 girl | acl:relcl |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 saved | obj |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 dragon | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 dragon | det |
| 28 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 saved | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 daughter | punct |
| 30 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 39 daughter | mark |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 daughter | nsubj |
| 32 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 31 she | conj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 daughter | cop |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 daughter | det |
| 35 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 daughter | nsubj |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 she | punct |
| 37 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 38 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 37 dragon | case |
| 39 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 forgot | parataxis |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 betrothed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | betroth | past | fish | damsel | a pretty girl | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Theme to girl=Recipient | |||
| 2 | accept | past | damsel | girl | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | forget | past | damsel not said here | the other girl | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | save | past · perfect · passive | the other girl | from the dragon | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary he=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is a | past | girl | dragon's daughter | tree rules |
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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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