Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 20
At which terrible idea they both gave way to not unnatural tears.
Who acts: horns · What happens: give · To what, where: way, unnatural tears, terrible idea
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horns), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 idea | case |
| 2 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 idea | nsubj |
| 3 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 idea | amod |
| 4 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gave | obl |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 gave | nsubj |
| 6 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 gave | nsubj |
| 7 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gave | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 tears | case |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 tears | advmod |
| 11 | unnatural | unnatural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tears | amod |
| 12 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 gave | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | horns = horn | way | unnatural tears | terrible idea | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent way=Theme at idea=Asset to tear=Recipient |
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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