Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 62
Again the Prince gave the Beast three wounds, and then he and the Beast lay down again to rest.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: give, lie down, rest · To what, where: three wounds, 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 | Again | again | ADV | _ | 4 gave | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Prince | det |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Beast | det |
| 6 | Beast | Beast | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 7 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 wounds | nummod |
| 8 | wounds | wound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 gave | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lay | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 lay | cc |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 lay | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 lay | nsubj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Beast | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Beast | det |
| 15 | Beast | Beast | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 he | conj |
| 16 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gave | conj |
| 17 | down | down | ADV | _ | 16 lay | advmod |
| 18 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 lay | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 rest | mark |
| 20 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 lay | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the Prince | three wounds | the Beast | again | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent beast=Recipient wound=Theme | ||
| 2 | lie down | past | Prince | then; again | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | rest | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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