Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 125
Their father was delighted at seeing his wife and his two sons, but still he was grieved about the other one, Prince Ivan.
Who acts: father · What happens: be, see, grieve · To what, where: wife, father
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 (father), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 father | nmod:poss |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 delighted | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 delighted | cop |
| 4 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 6 seeing | mark |
| 6 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 delighted | advcl |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 wife | nmod:poss |
| 8 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seeing | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sons | cc |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 sons | nmod:poss |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 sons | nummod |
| 12 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 wife | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 grieved | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 grieved | cc |
| 15 | still | still | ADV | _ | 18 grieved | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 grieved | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 grieved | aux:pass |
| 18 | grieved | grieve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 delighted | conj |
| 19 | about | about | ADP | _ | 22 one | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 one | det |
| 21 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 one | amod |
| 22 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 grieved | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Ivan | punct |
| 24 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Ivan | compound |
| 25 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 one | appos |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | shoes's father | delighted property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | gerund | shoes's father not said here | father's wife and father's two sons | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | grieve | past · passive | father | still | about the other one | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
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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