Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 61
The Prince's horse awoke him; up he jumped in a moment, and set off again in pursuit, caught up the Beast, and again began fighting with it.
Who acts: horse, Prince, pursuit · What happens: awake, jump, set off, catch up, begin, fight · To what, where: Prince, pursuit, 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 (horse, Prince, pursuit), 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 | 4 horse | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Prince | case |
| 4 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 awoke | nsubj |
| 5 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 awoke | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 jumped | punct |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 jumped | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 jumped | nsubj |
| 10 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 awoke | parataxis |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 moment | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 moment | det |
| 13 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 jumped | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 set | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 set | cc |
| 16 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 jumped | advcl |
| 17 | off | off | ADP | _ | 16 set | compound:prt |
| 18 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 set | advmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 pursuit | case |
| 20 | pursuit | pursuit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 set | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 caught | punct |
| 22 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 pursuit | acl |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 caught | compound:prt |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Beast | det |
| 25 | Beast | Beast | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 caught | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 began | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 began | cc |
| 28 | again | again | ADV | _ | 29 began | advmod |
| 29 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 jumped | conj |
| 30 | fighting | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 began | xcomp |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 it | case |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 fighting | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 awoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | the Prince's horse | Prince | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | jump | past | Prince | moment | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | set off | infinitive | Prince not said here | pursuit | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | catch up | participle | pursuit not said here | the Beast | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=Theme | ||||
| 5 | begin | past | Prince not said here | again | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | fight | gerund | Prince not said here | with beast | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with it=Co-Agent |
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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