Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 111
Then Koshchei fell on his knees before him, saying, "Don't kill me, Prince Ivan!
Who acts: Koshchei · What happens: fall, say, not kill · To what, where: knees, Koshchei · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | 3 fell | advmod |
| 2 | Koshchei | Koshchei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 knees | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 knees | nmod:poss |
| 6 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fell | obl |
| 7 | before | before | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fell | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 saying | punct |
| 10 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 fell | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 kill | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 kill | punct |
| 13 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 kill | aux |
| 14 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 kill | advmod |
| 15 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 saying | ccomp |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 kill | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Ivan | punct |
| 18 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Ivan | compound |
| 19 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 kill | obl |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | Koshchei | Koshchei's knees | before Ivan; then | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on knee=Location | |||
| 2 | say speech: express | gerund | Koshchei not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not kill in a quote | infinitive · do-support | Koshchei | Prince Ivan obl | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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