Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 65
But all of a sudden, just as the Prince began chasing it for the fourth time, the Beast fled to a great white stone, tilted it up, and escaped into the other world,[86] crying out to the Prince: "Then only will you overcome me, when you enter here."
Who acts: Prince, Beast · What happens: begin, chase, flee, tilt up, escape, cry out · To what, where: beast, great white stone, 86, other world, Prince · Speech: someone speaks here
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, Beast), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 sudden | cc |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 sudden | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 a | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 all | nmod |
| 5 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 began | punct |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 11 began | advmod |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 began | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Prince | det |
| 10 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 began | nsubj |
| 11 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sudden | parataxis |
| 12 | chasing | chase | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 began | xcomp |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 chasing | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 time | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 time | det |
| 16 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 17 time | amod |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 chasing | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 fled | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Beast | det |
| 20 | Beast | Beast | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 fled | nsubj |
| 21 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 began | parataxis |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 stone | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 stone | det |
| 24 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 stone | amod |
| 25 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 stone | amod |
| 26 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fled | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 tilted | punct |
| 28 | tilted | tilt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 fled | conj |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 tilted | obj |
| 30 | up | up | ADP | _ | 28 tilted | compound:prt |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 escaped | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 escaped | cc |
| 33 | escaped | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 fled | conj |
| 34 | into | into | ADP | _ | 37 world | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 world | det |
| 36 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 world | amod |
| 37 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 escaped | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 86 | punct |
| 39 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 40 86 | punct |
| 40 | 86 | 86 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 33 escaped | obl |
| 41 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 40 86 | punct |
| 42 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 escaped | advcl |
| 43 | out | out | ADP | _ | 42 crying | compound:prt |
| 44 | to | to | ADP | _ | 46 Prince | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 Prince | det |
| 46 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 crying | obl |
| 47 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 53 overcome | punct |
| 48 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 53 overcome | punct |
| 49 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 53 overcome | advmod |
| 50 | only | only | ADV | _ | 53 overcome | advmod |
| 51 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 53 overcome | aux |
| 52 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 53 overcome | nsubj |
| 53 | overcome | overcome | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 fled | conj |
| 54 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 53 overcome | obj |
| 55 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 58 enter | punct |
| 56 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 58 enter | advmod |
| 57 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 58 enter | nsubj |
| 58 | enter | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 53 overcome | conj |
| 59 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 58 enter | advmod |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sudden | punct |
| 61 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 sudden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the Prince | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | chase | gerund | the Prince not said here | beast | time | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | flee | past | the Beast | a great white stone | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to stone=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | tilt up | past | the Beast not said here | beast | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | ||||
| 5 | escape | past | the Beast not said here | 86 | the other world | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into world=Initial_Location | |||
| 6 | cry out speech: express | gerund | the Beast not said here | the Prince | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to prince=Recipient | ||||
| 7 | overcome in a quote | future | the Prince = prince | the Beast = beast | then | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot i=Theme | |||
| 8 | enter in a quote | present | the Prince = prince | here | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «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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