Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 59
"Thanks, Prince Ivan!" cried Koshchei the deathless, "now you will sooner see your own ears than Marya Morevna!" and out of the window he flew in the shape of a terrible whirlwind.
Who acts: Thanks, you · What happens: cry, see, fly · To what, where: own ears, window · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Thanks, you), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Thanks | punct |
| 2 | Thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Ivan | punct |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Ivan | compound |
| 5 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Thanks | appos |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 Ivan | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Ivan | punct |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Koshchei | Koshchei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | flat |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 deathless | det |
| 11 | deathless | deathless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cried | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 see | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 see | punct |
| 14 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 see | advmod |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 see | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 see | aux |
| 17 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 see | advmod |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 cried | parataxis |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 ears | nmod:poss |
| 20 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 ears | amod |
| 21 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 see | obj |
| 22 | than | than | ADP | _ | 24 Morevna | case |
| 23 | Marya | Marya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Morevna | compound |
| 24 | Morevna | Morevna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 see | obl |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 18 see | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 see | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 flew | cc |
| 28 | out | out | ADP | _ | 31 window | case |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 window | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 window | det |
| 31 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 flew | obl |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 flew | nsubj |
| 33 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 cried | conj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 shape | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 shape | det |
| 36 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 flew | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 whirlwind | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 whirlwind | det |
| 39 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 whirlwind | amod |
| 40 | whirlwind | whirlwind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 shape | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Thanks | deathless property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | see in a quote | future | you | your own ears | now | than Marya Morevna; soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ear=Stimulus | ||
| 3 | fly | past | Thanks | the window | in the shape of a terrible whirlwind | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent out window=Location |
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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