Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 13
Again did the Prince sit down on the stone, weep and weep, and then go to sleep.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: do, sit down, weep, go · To what, where: stone, sleep
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5. 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 | Again | again | ADV | _ | 2 did | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Prince | det |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sit | nsubj |
| 5 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | parataxis |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 sit | compound:prt |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 stone | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stone | det |
| 9 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sit | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 weep | punct |
| 11 | weep | weep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 sit | parataxis |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 weep | cc |
| 13 | weep | weep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 weep | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 go | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 go | cc |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 go | advmod |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 sit | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 sleep | case |
| 19 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 go | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | again | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | sit down | present | the Prince | the stone | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stone=Location | ||||
| 3 | weep | infinitive | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | weep | infinitive | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | go | infinitive | the Prince not said here | sleep | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial_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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