Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 10
"Good day, Prince Ivan! why hangs your brow so low?"
Who acts: Prince Ivan · What happens: hang · To what, where: brow
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6. 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 | _ | 3 day | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hangs | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Ivan | punct |
| 5 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Ivan | compound |
| 6 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 hangs | nsubj |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 Ivan | punct |
| 8 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 hangs | advmod |
| 9 | hangs | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 brow | nmod:poss |
| 11 | brow | brow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hangs | obj |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 low | advmod |
| 13 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hangs | xcomp |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 hangs | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 hangs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang in a quote | present | Prince Ivan | your brow | day | low property | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brow=Patient |
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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