Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 105
And when the Prince came to the blue sea, he looked--there slept Norka on a stone in the middle of the sea; and when it snored, the water was agitated for seven versts around.
Who acts: Prince, sea · What happens: come, look, sleep, snore, agitate · To what, where: blue sea, Norka, stone, water
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, sea), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 looked | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 came | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Prince | det |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 looked | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 sea | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sea | det |
| 8 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sea | amod |
| 9 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 looked | nsubj |
| 12 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 slept | punct |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 slept | expl |
| 15 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 looked | conj |
| 16 | Norka | Norka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 slept | obj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 stone | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 stone | det |
| 19 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 slept | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 middle | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 middle | det |
| 22 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stone | nmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 sea | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 sea | det |
| 25 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 middle | nmod |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 agitated | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 agitated | cc |
| 28 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 snored | advmod |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 snored | nsubj |
| 30 | snored | snore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 agitated | advcl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 snored | punct |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 water | det |
| 33 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 agitated | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 agitated | aux:pass |
| 35 | agitated | agitate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 looked | conj |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 38 versts | case |
| 37 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 38 versts | nummod |
| 38 | versts | verst | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 agitated | obl |
| 39 | around | around | ADV | _ | 35 agitated | advmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the Prince | the blue sea | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sea=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | look | past | Prince | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | sleep | past | Prince not said here | Norka | a stone in the middle of the sea; there | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent norka=Theme | |||
| 4 | snore | past | sea | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | agitate | past · passive | the water | for seven versts; around property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
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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