Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 95
"Oh, Prince Ivan! why did you disobey me, and go looking into the closet and letting out Koshchei the Deathless?"
Who acts: Prince Ivan · What happens: disobey, go, look, let out · To what, where: Marya, Koshchei
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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 disobey | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 Ivan | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Ivan | compound |
| 5 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 disobey | nsubj |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 Ivan | punct |
| 7 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 disobey | advmod |
| 8 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 disobey | aux |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 disobey | nsubj |
| 10 | disobey | disobey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 disobey | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 go | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 go | cc |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 disobey | conj |
| 15 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 go | xcomp |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 closet | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 closet | det |
| 18 | closet | closet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 looking | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 letting | cc |
| 20 | letting | let | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 looking | conj |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 letting | compound:prt |
| 22 | Koshchei | Koshchei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 letting | obj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Deathless | det |
| 24 | Deathless | Deathless | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 letting | xcomp |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 disobey | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 disobey | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disobey in a quote | past · do-support | Prince Ivan | Marya | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | infinitive | Prince Ivan not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | look in a quote | gerund | Prince Ivan not said here | into the closet | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into closet=Theme | ||||
| 4 | let out in a quote | gerund | Prince Ivan not said here | Koshchei | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent koshchei=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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