--- title: Another princess determines to marry him only who can leap into the… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: Another princess determines to marry him only who can leap into the glass palace in which she dwells, surrounded by a wide river; and many kings and princes perish miserably in attempting to perform the feat. Who acts: princess, many kings. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, many kings), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg22373:45:116 # text = Another princess determines to marry him only who can leap into the glass palace in which she dwells, surrounded by a wide river; and many kings and princes perish miserably in attempting to perform the feat. 1 Another another DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 determines determine VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 marry marry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 only only ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 8 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 9 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 leap leap VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 11 into into ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 obl _ _ 17 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 dwells dwell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 surrounded surround VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 advcl _ _ 21 by by ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl:agent _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 27 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 kings king NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 princes prince NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 conj _ _ 31 perish perish VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 32 miserably miserably ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 33 in in SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 34 attempting attempt VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 31 advcl _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 perform perform VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 xcomp _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 feat feat NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **determine** | present | another princess | | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **marry** | to-infinitive | another princess *not said here* | story | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | | 3 | **leap** | can | | | | the glass palace | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into palace=Destination | | 4 | **dwell** | present | princess | | | the glass palace | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location | | 5 | **surround** | participle | princess *not said here* | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **perish** | present | many kings and princes | | | | | miserably *property* | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **attempt** | gerund | many kings and princes *not said here* | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 8 | **perform** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | many kings and princes *not said here* | the feat | | | | | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feat=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 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. - ← previous: [sentence 115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/45/115/) - next →: [sentence 117](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/45/117/) - ↑ back to [Magic and Witchcraft., part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/45/)