Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 189
Before the Prince had time to look round, they were all out of sight.
Who acts: Prince, food · What happens: have, look round, be · To what, where: sight
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, food), 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 4 had | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Prince | det |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 sight | advcl |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 look | mark |
| 7 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 time | acl |
| 8 | round | round | ADV | _ | 7 look | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 sight | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 sight | cop |
| 12 | all | all | ADV | _ | 15 sight | advmod |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 sight | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 sight | case |
| 15 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 sight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the Prince | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | look round | to-infinitive | the Prince not said here | round property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | past | food | sight | all property | tree rules |
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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