Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, sentence 28
The Tartar read these words and was astounded at the power of the life-giving cross.
Who acts: Tartar · What happens: read, astound, give · To what, where: words, power
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tartar), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Tartar | det |
| 2 | Tartar | Tartar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 read | nsubj |
| 3 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 words | det |
| 5 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 read | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 astounded | cc |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 astounded | aux:pass |
| 8 | astounded | astound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 read | conj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 power | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 power | det |
| 11 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 astounded | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 cross | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 cross | det |
| 14 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 giving | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 life | punct |
| 16 | giving | give | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 cross | amod |
| 17 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 power | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 read | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | past | the Tartar | this words | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic | ||||
| 2 | astound | past · passive | the Tartar not said here | the power of the giving cross | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | ||||
| 3 | give | gerund | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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