Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 40
Prince Ivan rode further on, and came to a white tent, and forth came to meet him the fair Princess Marya Morevna.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: ride, come, meet · To what, where: white tent, Prince
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), 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 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 rode | nsubj |
| 2 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Prince | flat |
| 3 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | further | further | ADV | _ | 5 on | advmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 rode | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 came | cc |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rode | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 tent | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 tent | det |
| 11 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tent | amod |
| 12 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 came | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 came | cc |
| 15 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 16 came | advmod |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rode | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 meet | mark |
| 18 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 came | xcomp |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 meet | obj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Morevna | det |
| 21 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Morevna | amod |
| 22 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Marya | compound |
| 23 | Marya | Marya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Morevna | compound |
| 24 | Morevna | Morevna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 meet | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | Prince | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | come | past | Prince not said here | a white tent | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tent=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | come | past | Prince not said here | forth property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | meet | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | Prince | 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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