Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 101
But Ivan said, "Wait a minute, brothers!" and he seized his mace, and struck the cushions with it.
Who acts: Ivan · What happens: say, wait, seize, strike · To what, where: mace, cushions · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ivan), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 said | cc |
| 2 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Wait | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Wait | punct |
| 6 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 minute | det |
| 8 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Wait | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 brothers | punct |
| 10 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 minute | conj |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 Wait | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Wait | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 seized | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 seized | nsubj |
| 15 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 mace | nmod:poss |
| 17 | mace | mace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 seized | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 struck | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 struck | cc |
| 20 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 cushions | det |
| 22 | cushions | cushion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 struck | obj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 struck | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | Ivan | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | wait in a quote | infinitive | minute | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | seize | past | IVAN | IVAN's mace | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mace=Theme | ||||
| 4 | strike | past | Ivan not said here | the cushions | with mace | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent cushion=Patient with it=Instrument |
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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