Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 54
The Prince pulled himself together, leapt to his feet, crossed himself, and went straight at the beast.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: pull, leapt, cross, go · To what, where: Prince, beast
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), 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 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 pulled | nsubj |
| 3 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 pulled | obj |
| 5 | together | together | ADV | _ | 3 pulled | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 leapt | punct |
| 7 | leapt | leapt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 pulled | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 feet | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 feet | nmod:poss |
| 10 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 leapt | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 crossed | punct |
| 12 | crossed | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pulled | conj |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 crossed | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 went | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 went | cc |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pulled | conj |
| 17 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 16 went | advmod |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 beast | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 beast | det |
| 20 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 went | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pulled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | past | the Prince | Prince | together property | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | |||
| 2 | leapt | infinitive | the Prince not said here | to Prince's feet | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cross | past | the Prince not said here | Prince | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | ||||
| 4 | go | past | the Prince not said here | the beast | straight property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at beast=Location |
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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