Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 44

The Prince rode across the bridge and waved the handkerchief twice only on the left hand; there remained across the river a thin--ever so thin a bridge!

Who acts: Prince · What happens: ride, wave, remain · To what, where: bridge, handkerchief, left hand, river

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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Prince	det
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 rode	nsubj
3	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	across	across	ADP	_	6 bridge	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bridge	det
6	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rode	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 waved	cc
8	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rode	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 handkerchief	det
10	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 waved	obj
11	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 waved	advmod
12	only	only	ADV	_	16 hand	advmod
13	on	on	ADP	_	16 hand	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 hand	det
15	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 hand	amod
16	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 waved	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 remained	punct
18	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 remained	advmod
19	remained	remain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 rode	conj
20	across	across	ADP	_	22 river	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 river	det
22	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 remained	obl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 thin	det
24	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 remained	advcl
25	--	--	PUNCT	_	28 thin	punct
26	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	28 thin	advmod
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 thin	advmod
28	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 remained	advcl
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 bridge	det
30	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 thin	nsubj
31	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 rode	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ride	past	the Prince		the bridge		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent across bridge=Trajectory
2	wave	past	the Prince not said here	the handkerchief	the left hand	twice property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handkerchief=Patient
3	remain	participle	the Prince not said here		the river; there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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