Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 13
But under her portrait there was a legend: “_He who can set her a riddle she cannot solve is to marry her.
Who acts: Iván, Anna · What happens: be, set, not solve, portray · To what, where: legend, Anna, riddle · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iván, Anna), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 was | cc |
| 2 | under | under | ADP | _ | 4 portrait | case |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 portrait | nmod:poss |
| 4 | portrait | portrait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 was | obl |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 was | expl |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 legend | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 legend | det |
| 8 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 legend | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 set | punct |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 set | punct |
| 12 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 set | nsubj |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 set | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 set | aux |
| 15 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 legend | parataxis |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 set | obj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 riddle | det |
| 18 | riddle | riddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 set | obj |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 solve | nsubj |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 solve | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 solve | advmod |
| 22 | solve | solve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 riddle | acl:relcl |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 marry | cop |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 marry | mark |
| 25 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 set | conj |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 marry | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 legend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a legend | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | set in a quote | can | Iván | Anna | a legend nsubj; a riddle obj | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent she=Theme riddle=Destination | |||
| 3 | not solve in a quote | can | Anna | a riddle not said here | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent riddle=Topic | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | Iván not said here | Anna obj; marry property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | portray | Anna | nom portrait «communication 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 Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (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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