Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 111
But Ivan Popyalof cried: "Stop, brothers!" and he raised his mace and struck the spring, and its waters became blood.
Who acts: Ivan, waters · What happens: cry, stop, raise, strike, become · To what, where: brothers, mace, blood · 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, waters), 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 | _ | 4 cried | cc |
| 2 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | Popyalof | Popyalof | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Ivan | flat |
| 4 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 Stop | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Stop | punct |
| 7 | Stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 cried | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 brothers | punct |
| 9 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 Stop | obl |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 Stop | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Stop | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 raised | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 raised | nsubj |
| 14 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cried | conj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 mace | nmod:poss |
| 16 | mace | mace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 raised | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 struck | cc |
| 18 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 raised | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 spring | det |
| 20 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 struck | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 became | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 became | cc |
| 23 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 waters | nmod:poss |
| 24 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 became | nsubj |
| 25 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cried | conj |
| 26 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 became | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Ivan | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | stop in a quote | infinitive | brothers | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | raise | past | IVAN | IVAN's mace | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mace=Theme | ||||
| 4 | strike | past | IVAN not said here | spring | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | become | past | mace's waters | blood | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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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