Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 28
He gave her leave, and she went and began bestowing alms upon them, and examining them closely.
Who acts: Prince, Ivan · What happens: give, leave, go, begin, bestow, examine · To what, where: Ivan, alms
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, Ivan), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | iobj |
| 4 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 gave | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 went | cc |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 went | nsubj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gave | parataxis |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 began | cc |
| 10 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 went | conj |
| 11 | bestowing | bestow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 began | xcomp |
| 12 | alms | alm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 bestowing | obj |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 bestowing | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 examining | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 examining | cc |
| 17 | examining | examine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 gave | advcl |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 examining | obj |
| 19 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 17 examining | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Prince | Ivan | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | leave | infinitive | Prince not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go | past | Ivan | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | begin | past | Ivan not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | bestow | gerund | Ivan not said here | alms | upon alms = alm | tree rules | |||
| 6 | examine | gerund | Prince not said here | alms = alm | closely property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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