Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 58
They fought and fought; the Prince gave the beast three wounds.
Who acts: feet, Prince · What happens: fight, give · To what, where: 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 (feet, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 fought | nsubj |
| 2 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 fought | cc |
| 4 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 fought | conj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 gave | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Prince | det |
| 7 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 gave | nsubj |
| 8 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 fought | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 beast | det |
| 10 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gave | obj |
| 11 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 wounds | nummod |
| 12 | wounds | wound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 gave | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | past | feet = foot | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | fight | past | feet = foot not said here | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | give | past | the Prince | the beast | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent beast=Recipient wound=Theme |
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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