Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 112
But Prince Ivan sat down on a stone and burst into tears.
Who acts: Prince Ivan · What happens: sit down, burst · To what, where: stone, tears
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4. 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 sat | cc |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Ivan | compound |
| 3 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | nsubj |
| 4 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 sat | compound:prt |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 stone | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 stone | det |
| 8 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 burst | cc |
| 10 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sat | conj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 tears | case |
| 12 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 burst | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | past | Prince Ivan | a stone | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stone=Location | ||||
| 2 | burst | past | Prince Ivan not said here | tears | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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