Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 109
Then Prince Ivan began squeezing the egg, and thereupon Koshchei the Deathless bent double.
Who acts: Prince Ivan, Koshchei · What happens: begin, squeeze, bend · To what, where: egg
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, Koshchei), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 began | advmod |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Ivan | compound |
| 3 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 began | nsubj |
| 4 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | squeezing | squeeze | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 began | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 egg | det |
| 7 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 squeezing | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bent | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 bent | cc |
| 10 | thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 11 Koshchei | advmod |
| 11 | Koshchei | Koshchei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 bent | nsubj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Deathless | det |
| 13 | Deathless | Deathless | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Koshchei | appos |
| 14 | bent | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 began | conj |
| 15 | double | double | ADV | _ | 14 bent | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | Prince Ivan | then | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | squeeze | gerund | Prince Ivan not said here | the egg | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bend | past | Koshchei | double property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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