Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 61
But Prince Ivan wept full sore, and he arrayed himself and set out a wandering, saying to himself: "Whatever happens, I will go and look for Marya Morevna!"
Who acts: Prince Ivan, Thanks, Whatever · What happens: weep, array, set out, say, happen, go · To what, where: Thanks, wandering · 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 (Prince Ivan, Thanks, Whatever), 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 wept | cc |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Ivan | compound |
| 3 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 wept | nsubj |
| 4 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wept | xcomp |
| 6 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 full | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 arrayed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 arrayed | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 arrayed | nsubj |
| 10 | arrayed | array | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wept | conj |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 arrayed | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 set | cc |
| 13 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 arrayed | conj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 set | compound:prt |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 wandering | det |
| 16 | wandering | wandering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 set | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 saying | punct |
| 18 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 set | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 himself | case |
| 20 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 saying | obl |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 happens | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 happens | punct |
| 23 | Whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 happens | nsubj |
| 24 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 wept | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 go | punct |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 go | nsubj |
| 27 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 go | aux |
| 28 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 happens | parataxis |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 look | cc |
| 30 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 go | conj |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 Morevna | case |
| 32 | Marya | Marya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Morevna | compound |
| 33 | Morevna | Morevna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 look | obl |
| 34 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 28 go | punct |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 wept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep | past | Prince Ivan | full property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | array | past | Thanks | Thanks | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | set out | infinitive | Thanks not said here | a wandering | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | say speech: express | gerund | Thanks not said here | Thanks | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | happen in a quote | present | Whatever | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | go in a quote | future | Thanks | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | look in a quote | infinitive | Thanks not said here | for Marya Morevna | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for morevna=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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