Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 25

Then they wept bitterly because the Prince had not come, and it was impossible for them to hold out any longer, it was necessary that they should be married.

Who acts: workmen, Prince · What happens: weep, not come, be, hold out, marry · To what, where: workmen

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 (workmen, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 wept	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wept	nsubj
3	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	3 wept	advmod
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 come	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Prince	det
7	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 come	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 come	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 come	advmod
10	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wept	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 impossible	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 impossible	cc
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 impossible	expl
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 impossible	cop
15	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wept	conj
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 hold	mark
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 hold	nsubj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 hold	mark
19	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Sub Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 impossible	ccomp
20	out	out	ADP	_	19 hold	compound:prt
21	any	any	ADV	_	22 longer	advmod
22	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	19 hold	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 necessary	punct
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 necessary	expl
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 necessary	cop
26	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wept	conj
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 married	mark
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 married	nsubj:pass
29	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 married	aux
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 married	aux:pass
31	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 necessary	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	weep	past	workmen = workman		then	bitterly property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not come	past	the Prince				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	workmen = workman not said here			impossible property	tree rules
4	hold out	to-infinitive	workmen = workman			long property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	workmen = workman not said here			necessary property	tree rules
6	marry	should · passive		workmen = workman			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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