Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 40, sentence 61
_ This is one of the marvellous servants whom fortunate princes possess in folk-lore.
Who acts: This, fortunate princes · What happens: be, possess · To what, where: one, marvellous servants, folk lore
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 40. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, fortunate princes), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 4 one | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 one | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 one | cop |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 servants | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 servants | det |
| 7 | marvellous | marvellous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 servants | amod |
| 8 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 one | nmod |
| 9 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 possess | obj |
| 10 | fortunate | fortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 princes | amod |
| 11 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 possess | nsubj |
| 12 | possess | possess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 servants | acl:relcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 lore | case |
| 14 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lore | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 folk | punct |
| 16 | lore | lore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 possess | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | one | of the marvellous servants | tree rules | |||
| 2 | possess | present | fortunate princes | the marvellous servants | folk lore | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot whom=Theme |
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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