Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 17
Into each of these he entered, took the maidens' robes, went out again, turned the palaces back into eggs, and went home.
Who acts: Prince, each · What happens: enter, take, go out, turn back, go · To what, where: robes, palaces, eggs
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, each), 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 | Into | into | ADP | _ | 2 each | case |
| 2 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 took | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 these | case |
| 4 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 each | nmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 entered | nsubj |
| 6 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 each | acl:relcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 each | punct |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 maidens | det |
| 10 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 robes | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 10 maidens | case |
| 12 | robes | robe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 took | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 took | conj |
| 15 | out | out | ADV | _ | 14 went | advmod |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 went | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 turned | punct |
| 18 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 took | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 palaces | det |
| 20 | palaces | palace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 turned | obj |
| 21 | back | back | ADV | _ | 18 turned | advmod |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 eggs | case |
| 23 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 turned | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 went | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 went | cc |
| 26 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 took | conj |
| 27 | home | home | ADV | _ | 26 went | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | Prince | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | take | past | each | the maidens's robes | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robe=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go out | past | each not said here | again | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | turn back | past | each not said here | the palaces | eggs | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=Theme | |||
| 5 | go | past | each not said here | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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